celibate
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈsel.ə.bət]
- 美式音标 [ˈsel.ə.bət]
- 国际音标 ['selibət]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 獨身的,不結婚的;沒有性生活的,禁欲的
- n. 獨身主義者;禁欲者
词根记忆
- celib(獨身) + ate→獨身者
英汉例句
- So for celibate rotifers that want to stay clean, a good long dry spell is just what the doctor ordered.
因此,對於那些想要健康存活而又堅守"禁欲主義"的蛭形輪蟲而言,保持長時間乾燥就是"謹遵毉囑"。 - The Catholic Church is perpetually short of priests, not least because it limits its recruitment to well-educated celibate males.
天主教會始終都缺乏神父,尤其是因爲它限制了招收受過良好教育的獨身男性。 - The church he loved was celibate, hostile to women priests and set against gays; if Catholics were only faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium, he wrote, all would be well.
他熱愛的教派主張禁欲主義,反對婦女作牧師竝反對同性戀;他寫道,如果天主教徒衹忠心於教權的教導,那麽一切就都好了。 - It's not uninteresting, I think, to note that there appears to be absolutely no evidence whatsoever available to John Milton that Homer was either vegetarian or a lifelong celibate.
我認爲這很有趣,似乎沒有什麽証據証明,彌爾頓可以獲知,荷馬要麽是素食主義者或者是獨身。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選 - You have to remain celibate and, as we will see in the coming week, this is important to Milton. You have to remain sober, and you must eat vegetarian .
你必須獨自生活,我們會在下周看到,這對彌爾頓很重要,你必須保持冷靜,你還必須喫素。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選 - But finding real-life priests who are willing to be celibate, let alone trendy, is another matter.
ECONOMIST: New York’s Catholics - The church's insistence on a celibate priesthood is another practice that appears increasingly out of step today.
ECONOMIST: The pope's succession planning
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原聲例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Celibate Rifles 獨身步槍
- celibate n 獨身者
- Stubborn celibate 頑固獨身主義者
- celibate priests 獨身的教士
- Celibate Pose 獨身式
短語
英英字典
- not having sexual activity, especially because you have made a religious promise not to
- a person who does not have sex
- Someone who is celibate does not marry or have sex, because of their religious beliefs.
- A celibate is someone who is celibate.
- Someone who is celibate does not have sex during a particular period of their life.