| 英语单词 | consensual |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [kən'senʃuəl] 美 [kən'senʃuəl] |
| 中文释义 | adj.在两愿下成立的;交感性的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Sex, in most species of bird, is a consensual activity. (2) He acknowledges that sex took place but insists it was consensual. (3) But we will continue to push forward the frontiers, enlarging the range of our consensual understanding. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 性对于大多数鸟类来说是个两厢情愿的事。 (2) 他承认有发生性行为,但坚持是两厢情愿的。 (3) 那么,我们将继续推进这些尖端科学,扩大我们的交感理解力范围。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If something is consensual, all parties are in agreement that they approve of it. You and your neighbor could have a consensual agreement to share the cost of putting up a fence between your houses. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Consensual is related to the English words consensus and consent. They all go back to the Latin verb consentire, meaning "to agree" or literally, "to feel together," from the combination of sentire and com. In modern English, consensual is often used when discussing sex, particularly whether the act was consensual, agreed on by both people, or non-consensual, if one person was unwilling or too young to legally give consent. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]一致同意的;全体赞成的 A consensual approach, view, or decision is one that is based on general agreement among all the members of a group. [usu ADJ n]
2 [ADJ 形容词](性行为)双方自愿的,两厢情愿的 If sexual activity is consensual, both partners willingly take part in it. [LEGAL 法律]
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