- 1
Licentious describes a person, a life, or a story that is sexually wild and does not keep the usual moral rules — , often in a way other people judge as shameful. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned adjective. You will meet it in novels, in moral writing, and in news that wants a strong, word; you will not hear it much in the shop. Everyday English is more likely to say sleeping around, wild, or , depending on how blunt the speaker wants to be. It comes from Latin for “full of licence,” licence here meaning freedom. Though actually that freedom is the dark twin of a driving licence: not permission on paper, but “I may do as I like.” A sentence that uses licentious to mean “having a licence” has taken the wrong road. There is a rarer, still stretch in which it means “too free with the rules” in language or law, but the sexual, moral sense is the one students will actually read.
放蕩的;生活不檢點的(書面、偏舊,幾乎都指性方面太隨便,不是「有執照」)
組成From Latin licentiōsus, from licentia (“license, freedom”). The -ous ending means “full of” that freedom.
同家族的字
- licensesame Latin licentia: permission or freedom — this adjective is freedom taken too far
- licentiouslythe adverb: in a licentious way
原始詞典資料2 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。
licentiousadj/laɪˈsɛn.ʃəs/
- 1
Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.
- His eyes trailed over her feline pose on the sofa, finding her limbs adorable while he tried exasperatedly to extract the truth of licentious revelations from them.
- 2
Disregarding accepted rules.
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。