| 英语单词 | promiscuous |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [prə'mɪskjuəs] 美 [prə'mɪskjuəs] |
| 中文释义 | adj.杂乱的;(指性)随便的;不规则的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) I didn't understand, did men secretly want promiscuous and emotionally detached women? |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我不理解,男人是不是秘密的想要杂乱的且情绪孤立的女人? |
| vocabulary简明 | Use promiscuous to describe someone who will say "yes" to just about anything. If you are the kind of person who goes on a lot of dates with a lot of different people, you might be described as promiscuous. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Promiscuous is not limited to a romantic context. Long ago promiscuous described "a disorderly mixture of people and things," and shades of that original meaning linger. If a chef at an Italian restaurant is promiscuous, you might find him mixing ingredients from South America or Asia into his pasta. Carpet bombing as opposed to targeted invasion might be called a promiscuous use of military force. |
| 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]与多人发生性关系的;淫乱的;滥交的 Someone who is promiscuous has sex with many different people. [disapproval]
promiscuity
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]混杂的 Promiscuous means including a wide range of different things. [usu ADJ n] [FORMAL 正式]
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