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Lascivious describes a look, a comment, a picture, or a person that is full of sexual desire, or that is trying to wake that feeling in someone else.
Lascivious describesLascivious形容的是 a look, a comment, a picture, or a person一個眼神、一句話、一張圖片，或一個人 that is full of sexual desire充滿性慾, or that is trying to wake that feeling in someone else或想在別人身上喚起那種感覺。
It is a strong, rather old-fashioned and formal word. You will find it in books, news stories about “lascivious conduct,” and film reviews, not in the playground.
It is它是 a strong, rather old-fashioned and formal word一個語氣很重、有點老派又正式的字. You will find it你會在 in books, news stories about “lascivious conduct,” and film reviews書裡、報導「猥褻行為」的新聞，還有影評裡看到它, not in the playground而不是在操場上。
It almost always sounds — as if the desire is too much, too open, or not wanted. A lascivious grin is not a friendly smile; a lascivious remark is the kind that makes someone uncomfortable.
It almost always sounds disapproving它幾乎總帶著不贊同的語氣 — as if the desire is too much, too open, or not wanted彷彿那份慾望太過頭、太外露，或不受歡迎. A lascivious grin is notlascivious的笑容不是 a friendly smile友善的微笑; a lascivious remark islascivious的話是 the kind that makes someone uncomfortable那種會讓人不舒服的話。
Though actually, older writing could use related Latin senses closer to “playful,” but in English today the sexual meaning has taken over. Do not use it for ordinary romance or a light joke; English already has milder words for those.
Though actually不過其實, older writing could use古時候的文章可能會用 related Latin senses closer to “playful,”比較接近「調皮」的相關拉丁字義, but in English today但在今天的英文裡 the sexual meaning has taken over性方面的意思已經佔了上風. Do not use it不要用這個字 for ordinary romance or a light joke來形容普通的戀愛或輕鬆的玩笑話; English already has milder words for those英文已經有比較溫和的字可以用。
組成From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (sportiveness, lustfulness).
同家族的字
- lasciviouslythe adverb: doing something in a lascivious way
- lasciviousnessthe noun: the quality of being lascivious
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
lasciviousadj/ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/
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Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
- Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.
- The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。