首页英语词典salacioussalacious的意思

salacious

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

畅通词汇

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