salacious
英 [sə'leɪʃəs]
美[sə'leʃəs]
- adj. 好色的；猥亵的；淫荡的
词态变化
名词: salaciousness;
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，引申词义性交。
英英释意
- 1. characterized by lust;
- "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"
- "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"
- "prurient literature"
- "prurient thoughts"
- "a salacious rooster of a little man"
- 2. suggestive of or tending to moral looseness;
- "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"
- "an indecent gesture"
- "obscene telephone calls"
- "salacious limericks"
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.
实用场景例句
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a wildly salacious novel.
- 放荡淫秽的小说
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
期刊摘选
- 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情色细节.
期刊摘选
- 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。
柯林斯例句