effete [ɪˈfit]

例句:

• People said the aristocracy was effete.
  人们说贵族阶级已是日薄西山了.
  
• The absurd and backward - looking notion of locating a research centre in an effete , rundown, has - been country.
  把研究中心设在一个苍老 、 衰退 、 过了时的国家,纯属愚蠢,开倒车的想法.
  
• During the ages, Greek civilization declined and became effete.
  在中世纪期间, 希腊文明开始衰落直至衰败.
  
• Nature...was as if effete now; could not any longer produce Great Men.
  来自Carlyle
• Ronaldo can, and to think that he was once derided as too effete.
  来自THETIMES
• Here Lewis sounds rather effete, even if he is singing about old bodegas and Harlem.
  来自BBC