fornication
英 [,fɔːnɪ'keɪʃn]
美 [,fɔrnɪ'keʃən]
英文词源
- fornication
- fornication: [13] Latin fornix denoted an ‘arch’ or ‘vault’, and hence came to be used in the late republican period for the sort of vaulted underground dwellings where the dregs of Roman society – tramps, prostitutes, petty criminals, etc – lived. Early Christian writers homed in on the prostitutes, and employed the term with the specific meaning ‘brothel’, whence the verb fornicārī ‘have illicit sexual intercourse’ and its derivative fornicatiō, source of English fornication.
- fornication (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French fornicacion "fornication, lewdness; prostitution; idolatry" (12c.), from Late Latin fornicationem (nominative fornicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of fornicari "to fornicate," from Latin fornix (genitive fornicis) "brothel" (Juvenal, Horace), originally "arch, vaulted chamber, a vaulted opening, a covered way," probably an extension, based on appearance, from a source akin to fornus "brick oven of arched or domed shape" (see furnace). Strictly, "voluntary sex between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman;" extended in the Bible to adultery. The sense extension in Latin is perhaps because Roman prostitutes commonly solicited from under the arches of certain buildings.
双语例句
- 1. Fornication is a crime in some American states.
- 在美国的一些州，通奸属于犯罪。
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- 2. Public fornication won't look good on my resume.
- 公共场合做爱会毁了我的简历的.
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- 3. The plaqued Fornication Under Consent of the King ( F . U . C . K . ).
- 那一块板上面写的是“在国王的同意下可以进行性行为”.
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- 4. Fornication veils the morning just like carnage veils the day.
- 屠杀之血蔽日天**之秽染晨曦.
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- 5. But you have committed fornication with many lovers. et return to Me, declares Jehovah.
- 但你和许多所爱的人行邪淫, 还可以归向我; 这是耶和华说的.
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