salacious
英 [s?'le???s]
美[s?'le??s]
- adj. 好色的；猥褻的；淫蕩的
暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
名詞:?salaciousness;
中文詞源
salacious 淫穢的，色情的
來自拉丁語 salax,性欲旺盛的，來自 salire,跳，詞源同 salient,sally,result.-acious,形容詞后綴， 詞源同 sagacious.比喻用法，引申詞義性交。
英文詞源
- salacious
- salacious: see salient
- salacious (adj.)
- 1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c. 1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.
雙語例句
- 1. The newspapers once again filled their columns with salacious details.
- 赤裸裸的猥褻細節(jié)再度充斥了報紙的版面。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The male proboscis monkey has a pendulous vaguely salacious Jimmy Durante nose.
- 這種雄性長鼻猴長著一個下垂的、看上去有些色迷迷的大鼻子.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. Reiter said Beardsley Alford would not by serving up salacious details of the affair.
- 雷特說:比爾茲利·阿爾弗德并不打算提供事情的情色細節(jié).
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