People in the north are astonished, you know, that we're not just effete Southerners.

北方人很惊讶，你知道，我们不仅仅是虚南方人。

And it removes a lot of that effete, patrician, feather duster kind of imagery about him.

这消除了许多关他那种做作、贵族、表面形象。

He waged an evangelical war of words on " the timid good, " the pacifists, the effete.

他对 “胆小好人”、和平主义者、软人发动了一场福音派口战。

It was soon predicted that the self-made men of yore would be replaced by effete company drones who did what they were told.

很快就有人预言，昔日靠自己奋斗成功人将被那些对衰司唯命是从懒汉所取代。

We hunt from the car, which the Major considered effete. The custom antedates automobiles, going back to the days of the hunting wagon.

我们从车里打猎，少校认为这很无力。这种习俗早汽车，可以追溯到狩猎马车时代。

They changed the heroes from being effete dilettantes to being people down on their luck, getting by solving crime because they had closed all other paths off to themselves.

他们将英雄从娇生惯养业余爱好者转变为命运多舛之人，通过解决犯罪来谋生， 因为其他所有道路都已对他们关闭。