prurient

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 prūriēns，prūriō (「癢」)的現在分詞。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɹʊəɹ.i.ənt/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɹʊɹ.i.ənt/

• （美國）音頻：

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• 斷字：pru‧ri‧ent

形容詞

prurient (比較級 more prurient，最高級 most prurient)

1. 因慾望（尤指淫慾）而蠢蠢欲動的；好色的，發情的
   • 1823, The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, page 781,

     We know that at that period certain indecencies in the dresses, even of those who were considered as the most refined and polished men of the age, were not only tolerated but ostentatiously displayed, and every sort of device that the most prurient mind could think of was had recourse to, to attract attention or excite a smile.

   • 1995, Brian Parkinson, Ideas and Realities of Emotion, page 124,

     For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.

   • 2010, Stephen Sartarelli (translator), Love and the Erotic in Art, (2008, Stefano Zuffi, Amore ed erotismo), John Paul Getty Trust, US, page 7,

     It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts.

2. 激起色慾的
   • 1825, The Literary Chronicle for the Year 1825, London, page 156,

     […] nor is it more prurient or lascivious than many productions to be found in a circulating library.

   • 2008, Marcel Danesi, Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives, page 204,

     But in contemporary consumerist societies, when the kids are safely in bed, television programs allow viewers to indulge their more prurient interests.

3. 過分好奇的
   • 2005, Donald Gilbert-Santamaría, Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-century Spain, page 130,

     Much of my discussion in the previous two chapters has focused on the dichotomy in Alemán's novel between the author's stated interest in moral didacticism and the more prurient appeal of the novel's representations of material privation and violent spectacle.

近義詞

• (好色的)： lustful
• (激起色慾的)： titillating

衍生詞彙

• prurient interest

相關詞彙

• prurience
• pruriently
• pruritus

拉丁語

動詞

prūrient

1. prūriō 的第三人稱複數將來時主動態直陳式