adultery

n. 通奸，通奸行为

n.

通奸，私通；通奸行为；

变形

复数：adulteries

英英释义

adultery[ ə'dʌltəri ]

n.extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations

"adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"

同义词：criminal conversationfornication

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The Bible says adultery is a sin.
圣经说通奸是罪恶。

She has an adultery affair with the man.
她与那个男人有奸情。

He was fired because he was accused of adultery.
他因为被控有通奸行为而遭开除。

She suspected her husband had committed adultery.
她怀疑丈夫有通奸行为。

I was surprised to hear that Johnson had been divorced by his wife on the grounds of adultery.
听到约翰逊因通奸而被其妻子离弃，我大吃一惊。

权威例句

adultery

adultery: [14] Neither adultery nor the related adulterate have any connection with adult. Both come ultimately from the Latin verb adulterāre ‘debauch, corrupt’ (which may have been based on Latin alter ‘other’, with the notion of pollution from some extraneous source). By the regular processes of phonetic change, adulterāre passed into Old French as avoutrer, and this was the form which first reached English, as avouter (used both verbally, ‘commit adultery’, and nominally, ‘adulterer’) and as the nouns avoutery ‘adultery’ and avouterer ‘adulterer’.Almost from the first they coexisted in English beside adult- forms, deriving either from Law French or directly from Latin, and during the 15th to 17th centuries these gradually ousted the avout- forms. Adulter, the equivalent of avouter, clung on until the end of the 18th century, but the noun was superseded in the end by adulterer and the verb by a new form, adulterate, directly based on the past participle of Latin adulterāre, which continued to mean ‘commit adultery’ until the mid 19th century.=> alter

adultery (n.)

"voluntary violation of the marriage bed," c. 1300, avoutrie, from Old French avouterie (12c.), noun of condition from avoutre, from Latin adulterare "to corrupt" (see adulteration). Modern spelling, with the re-inserted -d-, is from early 15c. (see ad-). In Middle English, also "sex between husband and wife for recreational purposes; idolatry, perversion, heresy." Classified as single adultery (with an unmarried person) and double adultery (with a married person). Old English word was æwbryce "breach of law(ful marriage)" (compare German Ehebruch). Adultery Dune in Arizona corresponds to Navajo sei adilehe "adultery sand," where illicit lovers met privately.

1. He was accused of committing adultery.

他被控通奸。

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2. He hit out at public figures who commit adultery.

他猛烈抨击犯通奸的公众人物。

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3. She is going to divorce him on the grounds of adultery.

她打算以通奸为由与他离婚。

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4. I filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery a few months later.

，我几个月后以通奸为由提起了离婚。

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5. Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.

虽然是在自家地面上，但他的竞选活动还是受到了通奸指控的冲击。

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6. Although he was on home ground, his campaign had been rocked by adultery allegations.

虽然是在自家地面上，但他的竞选活动还是受到了通奸指控的冲击。

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