| 单词 | 单身 |
| 释义 | 〔chronic〕a confirmed bachelor;习惯于单身的人；〔wander〕My parents wanted me to stop gadding about unaccompanied in foreign cities. 我父母希望我中止在外国城市的单身漫游 〔monk〕from Greek [single] 源自 希腊语 [单身的] 〔celibate〕Historically,celibate means only "unmarried"; its use to mean "abstaining from sexual intercourse" is a 20th-century development.But the new sense of the word appears more or less to have displaced the old,and the use ofcelibate to mean "unmarried" is now almost sure to invite misinterpretation in other than narrowly ecclesiastical contexts.Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejected the older use in the sentenceHe remained celibate [unmarried] , although he engaged in sexual intercourse. 历史上，celibate 只作“未婚的”解； 用作“禁欲”的意思是在20世纪发展起来的。但是该词的新含义多少有取代原含义的趋势，并用celibate 作“未婚的”意义， 现在除了在狭小的神学领域外几乎都会引起误解。用法专题使用小组百分之六十八的成员在句子他仍是单身的 ［未婚的］ ，尽管他仍保有性生活 中，拒绝使用该词的旧含义 〔single〕Relating to the unmarried state:单身的：与未婚状态有关的：〔niece〕The illegitimate daughter of an ecclesiastic who has taken a vow of celibacy.教士的私生女：发誓单身的神职人员的私生女〔single〕singles Unmarried persons considered as a group: singles 单身：末婚者的总称： |
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