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单词 boyfriend
释义
boyfriendboy‧friend /ˈbɔɪfrend/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • All she does is talk about her boyfriend.
  • I was talking to this guy at the bar and he starting asking me whether I was married or had a boyfriend.
  • Is he your new boyfriend?
  • Josh was my first boyfriend.
  • Sarah's doing well and has a serious boyfriend, Michael, whom she plans to marry next year.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Her low-life boyfriend kicks her out, leaving her homeless but still sweet and pregnant.
  • If you slept with a boy and he was your boyfriend, it didn't really matter.
  • Jackie Cooper also starred as her perplexed boyfriend.
  • She could have picked herself a better boyfriend.
  • She must have a family, maybe even a boyfriend, all of them frantic, imagining her missing, even drowned.
  • So she talks to her boyfriend.
  • The car was her and boyfriend Robert; s pride and joy.
  • You and your boyfriend have a wonderful time.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: · Josh was my first boyfriend.
the person you are married to, or the person you are living with and having a sexual relationship with: · Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the same benefits that married couples get.· Partners are also welcome.
the man whom a woman is going to marry: · Her fiancé was killed in the war.
someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them: · A few nights later, they became lovers.
informal a woman’s former husband or boyfriend: · Her ex has caused a lot of trouble for her.
informal someone who was your boyfriend in the past: · In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of her old flames.
informal a woman’s husband or boyfriend: · She’ll always stand by her man.
old-fashioned the person that you love: · They were childhood sweethearts.
old-fashioned a woman’s boyfriend or lover – a very old-fashioned use: · Does she have a beau?
informal humorous a young man who is having a sexual relationship with an older woman: · A woman with a toy boy gets a lot more disapproving looks than a man with a younger woman.
informal an older man who gives a younger woman presents and money in return for their company and often for sex: · I can imagine her cashing checks from some mysterious sugar daddy.
if you are going out with a boy or man, you have him as your boyfriend: · She’s been going out with Jack for a couple of months.
 → girlfriendLongman Language Activatorsomeone that you have a romantic or sexual relationship with
a girl or woman that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: somebody's girlfriend: · I met my brother's new girlfriend last night.· Katherine is his first girlfriend since breaking up with Maggie.have a girlfriend: · Does Mark have a girlfriend?old/ex-/former girlfriend (=someone who used to be your girlfriend): · Denver police said the suspect had earlier made threats to kill his ex-girlfriend and then himself.serious/steady girlfriend (=a girlfriend that you have a serious romantic relationship with): · Wendell hasn't had a steady girlfriend in years.
a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time : somebody's boyfriend: · Josh was my first boyfriend.· All she does is talk about her boyfriend.have a boyfriend: · I was talking to this guy at the bar and he starting asking me whether I was married or had a boyfriend.old/ex-/former boyfriend (=someone who used to be your boyfriend): · Oh, my God! I've just seen Barry, my ex-boyfriend.serious/steady boyfriend (=a boyfriend that you have a serious romantic relationship with): · Sarah's doing well and has a serious boyfriend, Michael, whom she plans to marry next year.
someone that you have a serious romantic and sexual relationship with, especially someone that you live with: · Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the benefits awarded to heterosexual married couples.sexual partner: · The survey found that only about one of every four men had had ten or more sexual partners over their lifetime.
a woman who has a sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else: · She thought that her husband had a mistress but could not prove it.· The former Prime Minister's wife and mistress both attended the funeral.
someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them: somebody's lover: · That night she received a call from her lover.have a lover: · Over her lifetime, Catherine had many lovers.become lovers: · A few nights later, they became lovers.be lovers: · Kilpatrick claims that she and the congressman were once lovers.
informal someone who was your girlfriend or boyfriend in the past: · In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of his old flames.· After 17 years of marriage, he left his wife for an old flame he ran into at a high school reunion.
to have a girlfriend or boyfriend
to have someone as your girlfriend or boyfriend: · She's going out with some guy she met at work.· Can you believe she's going out with him?be going out together: · Jack and I have been going out together for four years.
to have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone, especially a relationship that is not very serious and does not last very long: · Do you know if Tanya's seeing anyone at the moment?· Her husband, whom she adored, confessed that he had been seeing other women.
to have a serious romantic relationship with someone - used especially about young people: · We've been going steady since our sophomore year.· Samantha went steady with her high school boyfriend for more than a year before they had sex.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· I've been with my current boyfriend for four years and we have a daughter.· When Mr Horton is on hall patrol, he always witnesses one of my hallway scenes with a current boyfriend.· Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years.· When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant, she had not been able to confide in them.· My current boyfriend knows there's something wrong but is losing patience with me.· Your current boyfriend feels concerned, but was not around when the problems began so may not feel able to help.
· Now I've met another man but he's her ex boyfriend, although they have my feelings for each other.
· Before they split up, Stroud had already moved her new boyfriend, Mark Evans into the house as a lodger.· My new boyfriend, Raul, used to be his boyfriend last year.· We aren't going to tell your new boyfriend anything.· Erik was killed Thursday; police are questioning Dawood and looking for her new boyfriend.· After a while my mum's new boyfriend moved in, and he eventually became my mum's fiancé.· It would serve him right if Jorge were my new boyfriend.· Her new boyfriend was a young businessman and drove a Sprite and Pam thought he was a good catch.· His mom has a new boyfriend.
· It was Stephen, Sarah's old boyfriend.· It was about an old boyfriend - before you, my dear - when I was fat and lacking confidence.· For drama, the old boyfriend shows up with blackmail on his mind.· Ann had met an old boyfriend, and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity.
· He's my first serious boyfriend and Mum and Dad like him.· I don't go in for serious boyfriends.· Dave had been Luce's first serious boyfriend.
· In any case, life was much too enjoyable to think about steady boyfriends.· The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.· It would have to be with a steady boyfriend.
VERB
· Dennis, am I ever going to get a boyfriend?· Sponsor her, share my income, raise her child, get rid of her boyfriend?!· She gets some pretty cute boyfriends.· Fair enough, perhaps, but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend.· I wouldn't mind, but I can't get a bloody boyfriend!
· I left to live with a boyfriend, who turned out to be a bad lot.· Still actively politically, she now lives with her boyfriend in a one-bed apartment in Atlanta.· In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend.· Three months later she left her parents and went to live with her boyfriend Peter.
· Ann had met an old boyfriend, and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity.· She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.· She met her boyfriend Barry in a pub two years ago.· She met Michael, her boyfriend, when she was fourteen and he was nineteen.· When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant, she had not been able to confide in them.· I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school, and we were together for six years.· They can't even meet their own boyfriends outside the club-they've got to go right outside the area.· Many hours may be spent daydreaming about meeting the ideal boyfriend and falling in love.
· But in general, sleeping with your boyfriend is a relatively accepted thing.· I think it wasn't seen as good or bad to sleep with your boyfriend.
· I told my boyfriend but I couldn't tell my mum.· I've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend.· And what kind of relationship can you have, if you daren't even tell your boyfriend you're on a period?· We aren't going to tell your new boyfriend anything.· You should really think twice before approaching this woman or before telling your boyfriend.· My counsellor pushed me, though, to talk to some one, so I tried to tell my boyfriend.· As she had told no one except her boyfriend that she was pregnant, it came as a shock to her family.
· Alison says the poltergeist has tried to smother her boyfriend in their terraced house.· My counsellor pushed me, though, to talk to some one, so I tried to tell my boyfriend.· Prosecutor Neil Tyrell said Mitchell struck her when she tried to pull her boyfriend away from him.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy.
  • She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.
  • She took no new live-in lover, and as far as she was aware, neither did Charles.
  • Two divorces, a long string of live-in boyfriends.
  • In any case, life was much too enjoyable to think about steady boyfriends.
  • It would have to be with a steady boyfriend.
  • Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15, who he has been going out with for several months.
  • The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.
  • Then, he started getting interested in banger-racing and got a steady girlfriend.
1a man that you are having a romantic relationship with → girlfriend2boyfriend jeans/cardigan/jacket etc used to refer to a piece of clothing for women that is quite big and looseTHESAURUSboyfriend a boy or man that you have a romantic relationship with, especially for a fairly long time: · Josh was my first boyfriend.partner the person you are married to, or the person you are living with and having a sexual relationship with: · Sweden allows gay partners to receive many of the same benefits that married couples get.· Partners are also welcome.fiancé the man whom a woman is going to marry: · Her fiancé was killed in the war.lover someone who you have a sexual relationship with, without being married to them: · A few nights later, they became lovers.ex informal a woman’s former husband or boyfriend: · Her ex has caused a lot of trouble for her.old flame informal someone who was your boyfriend in the past: · In a box in the closet, I found love letters from one of her old flames.man informal a woman’s husband or boyfriend: · She’ll always stand by her man.sweetheart old-fashioned the person that you love: · They were childhood sweethearts.beau old-fashioned a woman’s boyfriend or lover – a very old-fashioned use: · Does she have a beau?toy boy informal humorous a young man who is having a sexual relationship with an older woman: · A woman with a toy boy gets a lot more disapproving looks than a man with a younger woman.sugar daddy informal an older man who gives a younger woman presents and money in return for their company and often for sex: · I can imagine her cashing checks from some mysterious sugar daddy.be going out with somebody if you are going out with a boy or man, you have him as your boyfriend: · She’s been going out with Jack for a couple of months. → girlfriend
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