carnal: [15] Carnal means literally ‘of the flesh’; it comes from late Latin carnālis, a derivative of Latin carō ‘flesh, meat’. Other English words from the same source are carnivorous ‘meateating’ [17]; carnage [16], which came via French carnage and Italian carnaggio from medieval Latin carnāticum ‘slaughter of animals’; carnation [16], which originally meant ‘pink, colour of flesh’ and came via French carnation and Italian carnagione from late Latin carnātiō ‘fleshiness, fatness’; charnel [14], as in charnel house, from Old French charnel; and also carnival and carrion. => carnage, carnation, carnival, carnivorous, carrion, charnel
carnal (adj.)
c. 1400, "physical, human, mortal," from Old French carnal and directly from Medieval Latin carnalis "natural, of the same blood," from Latin carnis "of the flesh," genitive of caro "flesh, meat" (see carnage). Meaning "sensual" is from early 15c.; that of "worldly, sinful" is from mid-15c. Carnal knowledge is attested from early 15c. and was in legal use by 1680s.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. Their ruling passion is that of carnal love.
他們現(xiàn)在情欲正盛。
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2. The carnal man fears death a beast fears slaughter.
按**行事的人害怕死亡,猶如牲畜害怕被人宰殺一般.
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3. Our life on earth is, and ought to be , material and carnal.
在這世上我們的生活是, 也應(yīng)該是特質(zhì)的、**的.
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4. The carnal Jews hold a midway place between Christians and heathens.
**的猶太人處于基督教徒與異教徒之間.
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5. Have carnal knowledge of last 13 day the dilatation and curettage.