prurient

读音

• /ˈpɹʊəɹ.i.ənt/ Received-Pronunciation
• /ˈpɹʊɹ.i.ənt/ General-American

释义

1. 因欲望（尤指淫欲）而蠢蠢欲动的；好色的，发情的

   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.

   1823, The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, page 781,

   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.

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

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

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

2. 激起色欲的

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

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

3. 过分好奇的

   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.

   2005, Donald Gilbert-Santamaría, Writers on the Market: Consuming Literature in Early Seventeenth-century Spain, page 130,