I was - I admit it - rather dashing - a man about town if not a downright cad.

我曾是—我得坦白—一个非常浮华的人—一个假如不算无赖也算是城里人的男人。

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I should describe him as a man about town; he has enough money to be able to live without a profession and he doesn't seem to want one.

我看他是个游手好闲的人，他有很多钱，没有工作也能生活，而且看来他也不想工作。

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He had been her husband's college friend;was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him.

他是她丈夫在大学时期的朋友，现在是个记者，毫无疑问这是一个热衷社交的男人，或者应称之为“城里的男人”，或许这也是某种他们一直未能见面的原因。

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In his early 20s, he was known as a man about town, a bachelor who was frequently followed by a handful of watchful security guards in Mexico City.

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At 90, Fridel is still a man about town.

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"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.

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