• adj. 好色的；猥褻的；淫蕩的

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) salax,性欲旺盛的，來(lái)自 salire,跳，詞源同 salient,sally,result.-acious,形容詞后綴， 詞源同 sagacious.比喻用法。

salacious

salacious: see salient

salacious (adj.)

1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c. 1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.

1. The newspapers once again filled their columns with salacious details.

赤裸裸的猥褻細(xì)節(jié)再度充斥了報(bào)紙的版面。

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2. The male proboscis monkey has a pendulous vaguely salacious Jimmy Durante nose.

這種雄性長(zhǎng)鼻猴長(zhǎng)著一個(gè)下垂的、看上去有些色迷迷的大鼻子.

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3. Reiter said Beardsley Alford would not by serving up salacious details of the affair.

雷特說(shuō):比爾茲利·阿爾弗德并不打算提供事情的**細(xì)節(jié).

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