coquette
coquette 英 [kɒˈket] 美 [koʊˈket]
vi. 卖弄风情；调情 n. 卖弄风情的女人
名词复数:coquettes
- A coquette is a flirt, a girl or woman who knows how to flatter and manipulate men with her charms in order to get what she wants.
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- vi. 卖弄风情；调情
- n. 卖弄风情的女人
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1. " She has no conversation, " he said, "and I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.
“她不懂得跟人家说说话，”他说，“我担心她根本就是一个轻佻女子，看她风一来就浑身摇晃的轻浮样儿。”
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2. Of course she had a perfect right to suit herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband, but he certainly had not thought she was such an utter coquette.
当然，她完全有权利拒绝自己不喜欢的男人，但他完全没想到她之前居然是在卖弄风情。
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3. He likes girls that play the coquette.
他喜欢卖弄风情的女子。
- coquette (n.) "woman who endeavors to gain the admiration of men, a flirt," 1660s, from French fem. of coquet (male) "flirt" (see coquet, which was used of women from 1610s).
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