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英语单词

salacious是什么意思

salacious

英 [sə'leɪʃəs] 美 [sə'leʃəs]
  • adj. 好色的;猥亵的;淫荡的

中文词源


salacious 淫秽的,色情的

来自拉丁语 salax,性欲旺盛的,来自 salire,跳,词源同 salient,sally,result.-acious,形容词后缀, 词源同 sagacious.比喻用法。

英文词源


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.

双语例句


1. The newspapers once again filled their columns with salacious details.
赤裸裸的猥亵细节再度充斥了报纸的版面。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The male proboscis monkey has a pendulous vaguely salacious Jimmy Durante nose.
这种雄性长鼻猴长着一个下垂的、看上去有些色迷迷的大鼻子.

来自互联网

3. Reiter said Beardsley Alford would not by serving up salacious details of the affair.
雷特说:比尔兹利·阿尔弗德并不打算提供事情的**细节.

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