lascivious是什么意思

lascivious

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lascivious 好色的，淫蕩的

來自PIE*las,松軟的，缺乏管教的，詞源同lazy.引申詞義好色，淫蕩的，詞義演變比較wanton.

lascivious: lascivious: see lust
lascivious (adj.): mid-15c., from Middle French lascivieux or directly from Late Latin lasciviosus (used in a scolding sense by Isidore and other early Church writers), from Latin lascivia "lewdness, playfulness, frolicsomeness, jolity," from lascivus "lewd, playful, frolicsome, wanton," from PIE *las-ko-, from *las- "to be eager, wanton, or unruly" (cognates: Sanskrit -lasati "yearns," lasati "plays, frolics," Hittite ilaliya- "to desire, covet," Greek laste "harlot," Old Church Slavonic laska "flattery," Slovak laska "love," Old Irish lainn "greedy," Gothic lustus, Old English lust "lust"). Related: Lasciviously; lasciviousness. In 17c. also with a verbal form, lasciviate.

1. The man was lascivious, sexually perverted and insatiable.: 這個人是一個欲壑難填的變態(tài)色情狂。

2. Scaccia kept telling Humboldt that she was still in New York and doing lascivious thing.: 斯卡西亞一直向洪堡報告,她仍然在紐約干荒淫無恥的勾當.

3. In his old age Cato became lascivious and misconducted himself with a woman slave.: 到了晚年,卡托沉溺于女色,跟一個女奴私通.

4. I was there to protect her from the importunities of lascivious men.: 我在那里保護她,不受那些好色男子的糾纏不休.

5. Is lascivious online content, traditionally on top, losing its lustre?: 在線淫穢內(nèi)容歷來風行, 但如今漸入頹勢?