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If you call a look, a joke, a film or a person lubricious, you mean they are too interested in sex, and they show it in a way that feels and unpleasant — not warm, not funny, just a bit disgusting. It is a formal, word. Most people would say sleazy, lewd or creepy instead. Though actually, the feeling in the word comes from an older picture of something slippery; that is why a lubricious stare can sound like it slides over you. You will meet it in reviews, novels and news writing, not in the playground. It is a critic’s word, never a compliment, and never a playful way to say “sexy”.
好色的、帶淫褻意味的(很文;口語較常說下流、色瞇瞇)
組成A learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus, “slippery”. Doublet of the rarer spelling lubricous.
同家族的字
- lubricantboth go back to a Latin word for slippery
- lubricatesame Latin slippery root
- lubriciouslythe adverb form
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。
lubriciousadj/luˈbɹɪʃəs/
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Smooth and glassy; slippery.
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Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
- His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
- Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
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。