adultery

• n. 通奸，通奸行为

同adulterate, 掺假。此处指夫妻生活不忠。

1. extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations;

"adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"

adultery

adultery: [14] Neither adultery nor the related adulterate have any connection with adult. Both come ultimately from the Latin verb adulterāre ‘debauch, corrupt’ (which may have been based on Latin alter ‘other’, with the notion of pollution from some extraneous source). By the regular processes of phonetic change, adulterāre passed into Old French as avoutrer, and this was the form which first reached English, as avouter (used both verbally, ‘commit adultery’, and nominally, ‘adulterer’) and as the nouns avoutery ‘adultery’ and avouterer ‘adulterer’.

Almost from the first they coexisted in English beside adult- forms, deriving either from Law French or directly from Latin, and during the 15th to 17th centuries these gradually ousted the avout- forms. Adulter, the equivalent of avouter, clung on until the end of the 18th century, but the noun was superseded in the end by adulterer and the verb by a new form, adulterate, directly based on the past participle of Latin adulterāre, which continued to mean ‘commit adultery’ until the mid 19th century.
=> alter

adultery (n.)

"voluntary violation of the marriage bed," c. 1300, avoutrie, from Old French avouterie (12c.), noun of condition from avoutre, from Latin adulterare "to corrupt" (see adulteration). Modern spelling, with the re-inserted -d-, is from early 15c. (see ad-).

In Middle English, also "sex between husband and wife for recreational purposes; idolatry, perversion, heresy." Classified as single adultery (with an unmarried person) and double adultery (with a married person). Old English word was æwbryce "breach of law(ful marriage)" (compare German Ehebruch). Adultery Dune in Arizona corresponds to Navajo sei adilehe "adultery sand," where illicit lovers met privately.

an adulterous relationship

通奸关系

牛津词典

He was accused of committing adultery .

他被控通奸。

牛津词典

She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.

她以丈夫搞婚外情为由要求离婚。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another , committeth adultery.

离弃己妻而娶他人之妻的人, 犯了通奸罪.

期刊摘选

Why is it that so many senior business people are responding to recession with adultery?

为什么如此多的资深商业人士竟会以搞婚外恋来应对经济衰退?

期刊摘选

However, proposals to make adultery a criminal offense have met little popular support.

有人提议将通奸变成违法的犯罪行为, 然而民意并不认同.

期刊摘选

He accused her of adultery.

他控告她与人私通.

期刊摘选

That is a case of adultery.

那是一件通奸案.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

You shall not commit adultery.

不可以通奸.

期刊摘选

He was a child born of adultery.

他是婚外通奸生下的孩子.

期刊摘选

You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob temples?

说不可行奸淫, 自己却去行奸淫? 憎恶偶像, 自己却去劫掠庙宇?

期刊摘选

Snyder says Fatal Attraction , a cautionary tale about the dangers of adultery, a similar theme.

施耐德说《致命诱惑》是一部讲述成人危险游戏的警示故事, 和之前有相同的主题.

期刊摘选

Now if thou commit no adultery , yet if thou kill, thou art transgressor of the law.

原来那说不可奸淫的、也说不可杀人.你就是不奸淫 、 却杀人 、 仍是成了犯律法的.

期刊摘选

Seventh " You shall not commit adultery . "

第七条: 不可 奸淫.

期刊摘选

The only way out was divorce; the only grounds were adultery.

唯一的路就是离婚, 而离婚的唯一证据就是通奸.

期刊摘选

Many people in public life have committed adultery.

社会生活中的很多人都有过通奸行为.

《简明英汉词典》

Real adultery, secret infidelity by the woman without the husband's knowledge, was therefore unheard of.

所以,真正的通奸, 妻背夫不贞, 是从来没有听说过的.

期刊摘选

He warns us about the root of adultery.

祂警告我们,要注意奸淫的根源.

期刊摘选

In ancient India, adultery was punished by amputation of the nose.

在古代印度, 通奸要受到剖鼻的处罚.

辞典例句

Adultery was a ground for divorce.

通奸是离婚的理由.

《简明英汉词典》

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

哎! 你这行淫的妻啊, 宁肯接外人,不接丈夫.

期刊摘选

According to the ancient law, adultery means improper kind of sexual behavior between man and woman.

古代法中通奸是指男女之间不正当的性行为.

期刊摘选

We are not to commit adultery: we are not to violate others'bodies, purity, marriage.

我们不可犯奸淫.我们不可侵犯别人的身体 ﹐ 别人的纯洁 ﹐ 别人神圣的婚姻.

期刊摘选

For out of the heart come evil thoughts , murder, adultery , sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

因为从心里发出来的,有恶念, 凶杀, 奸淫, 苟合, 偷盗, 妄证, 毁谤.

期刊摘选

I'm sure the woman the Pharisees took in adultery didn't look half so pale.

我相信法利赛人抓到了那个通奸的女人决不会这样灰溜溜的.

飘（部分）

He was accused of committing adultery .

他被控通奸。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.

虽然是在自己家乡，他的竞选活动还是因私通指控受到了冲击。

柯林斯例句

The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday hit out at public figures who commit adultery.

昨天坎特伯雷大主教严厉抨击了几位与人通奸的公众人物。

柯林斯例句

She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.

她以丈夫搞婚外情为由要求离婚。

柯林斯例句

Adultery is a mortal sin.

通奸是不可饶恕的罪孽。

柯林斯例句