lascivious是什么意思

lascivious

英 [lə'sɪvɪəs]***美 [lə'sɪvɪəs]

中文词源

lascivious 好色的，淫荡的

来自PIE*las,松软的，缺乏管教的，词源同lazy.引申词义好色，淫荡的，词义演变比较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.: 这个人是一个欲壑难填的变态色情狂。

2. Scaccia kept telling Humboldt that she was still in New York and doing lascivious thing.: 斯卡西亚一直向洪堡报告,她仍然在纽约干荒淫无耻的勾当.

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,跟一个女奴私通.

4. I was there to protect her from the importunities of lascivious men.: 我在那里保护她,不受那些好色男子的纠缠不休.

5. Is lascivious online content, traditionally on top, losing its lustre?: 在线淫秽内容历来风行, 但如今渐入颓势?