gay
英式音标：[geɪ] 怎么读
美式音标：[ɡeɪ] 怎么读
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同义词： showy ramshackle rakish rakehelly rakehell queer profligate pealike merrymaking lighthearted libertine homosexual homophile hedonic happiest gayest gayer gamesome festival enjoyable
gay概况
adj. 快乐的；放荡的；艳丽的
n. 同性恋者
n. (Gay)人名；(西)加伊；(英、法、瑞典、毛里塔)盖伊
gay词义
中文拼写：盖伊
名字含义：愉快的
名字来源：古法语
名字类别：女
John Gay 约翰•盖伊：
(1685～1732)，英国剧作家，作品有《乞丐的歌剧》等。
变形
复数：gays
双语释义
adj.(形容词)快乐的,欢快的; 轻松的,愉快的 happy and full of fun; cheerful
[A]轻率的,不假思索的; 放荡的 careless; thoughtless; only concerned with pleasure
同性恋的homosexual
英英释义
gay[ ɡei ]
n.someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
同义词：homosexualhomophilehomo
adj.
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
"a gay sunny room"
同义词：cheerysunny
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
"when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"
同义词：jocundjollyjovialmerrymirthful
given to social pleasures often including dissipation
"led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies"
brightly colored and showy
"a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"
同义词：bravebraw
offering fun and gaiety
"gay and exciting night life"
同义词：festalfestivemerry
homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
同义词：queerhomophile(a)
gay用法
词汇搭配
用作形容词 (adj.)
～+名词
gay appearance快乐的样子
gay bar同性恋者喜欢去的酒吧
gay beach欢快的海滨
gay community同性恋团体
gay crowd欢乐的人群
gay flags鲜艳的彩旗
gay holiday快乐的假期
gay life放荡的生活
gay person无忧无虑的人,同性恋者
动词+～
go gay过放荡生活
词组短语
gay marriage同性恋婚姻
gay man男同性恋者
同近义词辨析
joyful, glad, delightful, merry, gay, happy, agreeable, jolly, nice, pleasant, cheerful这组词都有“愉快的，高兴的”的意思，其区别是：
joyful语气较强，强调心情或感情上的欣喜。
glad最普通用词，语气较弱，表示礼貌的惯用语。指乐于做某事或因某事而感到满足，常表愉快的心情。
delightful指能带来强烈的快乐，激起愉快的情感，用于非常愉快的场合。
merry指精神情绪的暂时高涨，表示欢乐、愉快的心境或情景，侧重充满欢笑声和乐趣。
gay侧重无忧无虑、精神昂扬、充满生命的快乐。
happy侧重感到满足、幸福或高兴。
agreeable指与感受者的愿望、情趣或受好等和谐一致而带来的心情上的快意。
jolly通俗用词，多指充满快乐与喜悦的神情。
nice语气较温和，泛指任何愉快或满意的感觉。
pleasant侧重给人以“赏心悦目”或“愉快的，宜人的”感受。
cheerful多指因内心的愉快而表现出兴高采烈，是强调而自然的感情流露。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
They object to the movie's depiction of gay people.
他们反对这部影片对同性恋者的刻画。
用作形容词(adj.)
She gave a gay laugh.
她发出了快活的笑声。
The package was tied with gay ribbons.
包裹用色彩鲜艳的丝带捆扎好。
They painted the room in gay colours.
他们用鲜艳的颜色粉刷房间。
I suppose she'd got tired of a gay life and wanted to settle down.
我想她一定是厌倦了放荡的生活，想要安定下来。
He has always championed the cause of gay rights.
他一直在为争取同性恋者的权利而斗争。
权威例句
Minority stress and mental health in gay men.Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. By George Chauncey. (New York: BasicBooks, 19...
Mental health correlates of perceived discrimination among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States.
Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence.
A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people
The impact of homophobia, poverty, and racism on the mental health of gay and bisexual Latino men: findings from 3 US cities.
The 2011 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation's Schools.
Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in white and Latino lesbian, gay, and bisexual young adults.
The 2003 National School Climate Survey. The School-Related Experiences of Our Nation's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.
A prospective controlled study of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in gay men and parenteral drug users with human immunodefi...
gay词源
gay
gay: [13] English borrowed gay from Old French gai, an adjective of uncertain origin connected by some with Old High German gāhi ‘sudden, impulsive’. ‘Happy’ is its ancestral meaning, stretching back to Old French gai. The 20thcentury sense ‘homosexual’, which first came into general use in the 1950s, can probably be traced back to the 17th-century meaning ‘sexually dissolute’.By the early 19th century it was being applied specifically to the world of prostitution, and it seems not unlikely that male prostitutes and their male clients could have been the vector for the present-day usage. A reported 1868 song by the US female impersonator Will S. Hays was supposedly called ‘The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store’, but it is not entirely clear what ‘gay’ is supposed to have meant here, and the earliest reliable printed record of the ‘homosexual’ sense is from 1933.The adjective underwent a further semantic flipflop in the early 21st century, when kids’ slang commandeered it, paradoxically, for ‘sad’.
gay (adj.)
late 14c., "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, carefree;" also "wanton, lewd, lascivious" (late 12c. as a surname, Philippus de Gay), from Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charming; forward, pert; light-colored" (12c.; compare Old Spanish gayo, Portuguese gaio, Italian gajo, probably French loan-words). Ultimate origin disputed; perhaps from Frankish *gahi (related to Old High German wahi "pretty"), though not all etymologists accept this. Meaning "stately and beautiful; splendid and showily dressed" is from early 14c. In the English of Yorkshire and Scotland formerly it could mean "moderately, rather, considerable" (1796; compare sense development in pretty (adj.)). The word gay by the 1890s had an overall tinge of promiscuity -- a gay house was a brothel. The suggestion of immorality in the word can be traced back at least to the 1630s, if not to Chaucer:
But in oure bed he was so fressh and gay Whan that he wolde han my bele chose.
Slang meaning "homosexual" (adj.) begins to appear in psychological writing late 1940s, evidently picked up from gay slang and not always easily distinguished from the older sense:After discharge A.Z. lived for some time at home. He was not happy at the farm and went to a Western city where he associated with a homosexual crowd, being "gay," and wearing female clothes and makeup. He always wished others would make advances to him. ["Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques," 1947, p.240]
The association with (male) homosexuality likely got a boost from the term gay cat, used as far back as 1893 in American English for "young hobo," one who is new on the road, also one who sometimes does jobs."A Gay Cat," said he, "is a loafing laborer, who works maybe a week, gets his wages and vagabonds about hunting for another 'pick and shovel' job. Do you want to know where they got their monica (nickname) 'Gay Cat'? See, Kid, cats sneak about and scratch immediately after chumming with you and then get gay (fresh). That's why we call them 'Gay Cats'." [Leon Ray Livingston ("America's Most Celebrated Tramp"), "Life and Adventures of A-no. 1," 1910]
Quoting a tramp named Frenchy, who might not have known the origin. Gay cats were severely and cruelly abused by "real" tramps and bums, who considered them "an inferior order of beings who begs of and otherwise preys upon the bum -- as it were a jackal following up the king of beasts" [Prof. John J. McCook, "Tramps," in "The Public Treatment of Pauperism," 1893], but some accounts report certain older tramps would dominate a gay cat and employ him as a sort of slave. In "Sociology and Social Research" (1932-33) a paragraph on the "gay cat" phenomenon notes, "Homosexual practices are more common than rare in this group," and gey cat "homosexual boy" is attested in Noel Erskine's 1933 dictionary of "Underworld & Prison Slang" (gey is a Scottish variant of gay). The "Dictionary of American Slang" reports that gay (adj.) was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] notes a male prostitute using gay in reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostitutes) in London's notorious Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] calls attention to the ambiguous use of the word in the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by U.S. female impersonator Will S. Hays, but the word evidently was not popularly felt in this sense by wider society until the 1950s at the earliest."Gay" (or "gai") is now widely used in French, Dutch, Danish, Japanese, Swedish, and Catalan with the same sense as the English. It is coming into use in Germany and among the English-speaking upper classes of many cosmopolitan areas in other countries. [John Boswell, "Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality," 1980]
As a teen slang word meaning "bad, inferior, undesirable," without reference to sexuality, from 2000.gay (n.)
"a (usually male) homosexual," by 1971, from gay (adj.). In Middle English it meant "excellent person, noble lady, gallant knight," also "something gay or bright; an ornament or badge" (c. 1400).
gay造句
1. I didn't know he was gay.
我不知道他是同性恋者。
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2. He has waffled on abortion and gay rights.
他在人工流产和同性恋者的权利问题上含糊其辞。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3. He has always championed the cause of gay rights.
他一直在为争取同性恋者的权利而斗争。
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4. They object to the movie's depiction of gay people.
他们反对这部影片对同性恋者的刻画。
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5. His sexual orientation was a lot more gay than straight.
他的性取向更像是同性恋的而非异性恋的。
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6. The article examines the portrayal of gay men in the media.
这篇文章剖析了传媒对男同性恋者的描述。
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7. The report assesses the impact of AIDS on the gay community.
这个报告评估了艾滋病对同性恋群体的影响。
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8. The quality of life for gay men has improved over the last two decades.
男同性恋者的生活质量过去20年有了改善。
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9. They threatened to close any theatre presenting a play with gay characters.
他们威胁要关闭任何上演有同性恋角色戏剧的剧院。
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10. I'm not homophobic in any way and certainly don't condemn gay relationships.
我对同性恋者没有任何的憎恶，当然也就不会谴责同性恋的关系。
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11. He speaks with rage of insinuations that there's a "gay mafia" in Hollywood.
他愤怒的放言影射好莱坞有一个“同性恋黑手党”。
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12. The gay and lesbian rights group, Stonewall, sees outing as completely unhelpful.
男女同性恋权利团体“石墙”认为揭露同性恋身份是完全无用的。
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13. The New York gay action group "Queer Nation" recently outed an American Congressman.
纽约同性恋行动团体“酷儿国度”最近揭露了一位美国国会议员的同性恋身份。
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14. The book analyses the social and political ramifications of AIDS for the gay community.
这本书分析了同性恋团体中艾滋病引发的社会和政治后果。
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15. Dobson blames activist judges for undermining families with favourable gay-marriage rulings.
多布森责备激进派法官们通过赞成同性婚姻的裁决破坏家庭。
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16. I bet I'll have a gay time.
我保证我会有一段快乐的时光。
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17. What is gay and innocent and heartless?
什么是快乐、天真和狠心？
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18. Ain't it gay?
这不是很快乐吗？
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19. I do wish I were gay and innocent and heartless.
我真希望我是快乐的、天真的、无情的。
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20. They are no longer gay and innocent and heartless.
他们不再快乐、不再天真、不再狠心了。
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21. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.
只有快乐、天真、狠心的人才会飞。
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22. As so often before, the gay children dragged him from his tree.
和往常一样，快乐的孩子们把他从树上拽下来。
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23. The ruling puts Walker at the forefront of the gay marriage debate.
这项裁决将沃克摆在在同性婚姻辩论的最前端。
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24. So uproariously gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other on the bed and out of it!
舞蹈是多么有趣快乐啊，他们在床上和床外互相打闹得多么厉害啊！
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25. It's a poem that begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay."
诗的开头写道，“我曾听见歇斯底里的女人们说，她们厌恶调色板和提琴弓，厌恶那些永远快乐的诗人们。”
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26. The garden was gay with red geraniums.
花园里红色的天竺葵花色彩艳丽。
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27. Some senators expressed concern about being portrayed as gay-bashers.
一些参议员表示担心被塑造成会用暴力对待同性恋者的人。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
28. Everyone was uncommonly gay.
每个人都极其愉快。
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29. Everyone was uncommonly gay.
每个人都极其愉快。
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30. "That's gay -- that's mighty gay, Tom, I tell you."
“这真好玩，真有意思，汤姆。”
-- 来源 -- 英汉文学 - 汤姆历险 - tangmulixianji35
31. But the external manifestation in part of GAY has its generality characteristic.
但部分GAY的外在表现是有其共性特征的。
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32. personal character, enthusiasm, sincerity, docile, mutual help, cherish the :If you are a GAY
抱歉：如果你是GAY，请不要与我联络。
-- 来源 -- 网友提供
33. Spirited; lively; gay.
活泼的，轻快的；愉快的
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
34. There are gay truck drivers and gay cops and gay Iumberjacks.
那儿有男同志司机,男同志警察和 男同志伐木工.
-- 来源 -- 电影对白
35. Lighthearted; gay.
轻松的,轻快的,活泼的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
36. gay marriage
同志婚礼
-- 来源 -- yanyan
37. Gay or homosexual.
同性恋的
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
38. gay colours
鲜艳的色彩
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
39. gay lussac's law
盖吕萨克定律
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]