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beau

/boh/US // boʊ //UK // (bəʊ) //

美人,美好的,美人儿,美好

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural beaus [bohz], /boʊz/, beaux [bohz; French boh]. /boʊz; French boʊ/.

    • : a male lover or sweetheart.
    • : a frequent and attentive male escort for a girl or woman.
    • : a dandy; fop.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to escort, as to a social gathering.

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Examples

  • She’s been married twice and, in her own words, has had “lots of beaus.”

  • Whatever the reason, Burton was committed enough to leave tiny Bunker Hill to seek out her beau.

  • But that just made Summer more enticing, an unobtainable Beau Ideal.

  • Kudos to the voters for nominating Allison Janney and Beau Bridges for the blistering guest turns, too.

  • People know Kurt Sutter and Vince Gilligan and Beau Willimon from House of Cards.

  • Beau Kilmer, co-director of the drug policy research center at RAND Corporation, calls the decision “extremely frustrating.”

  • Celuy-cy avoit souvent esvad le danger d'estre noy, et tout fraischement le beau jour de la Pentecoste dernire.

  • At least this is as far as my observation of him goes on the few occasions I have seen him in the beau monde.

  • A coquette is said to be an imperfect incarnation of Cupid, as she keeps her beau, and not her arrows, in a quiver.

  • Then he started, and suffered five suffocating minutes in the public sitting-room of the Beau Soleil.

  • A beau highwayman and a miserable chimney sweeper were to be hanged together at Newgate for their respective deserts.