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adultery

/uh-duhl-tuh-ree/US // əˈdʌl tə ri //UK // (əˈdʌltərɪ) //

奸情,奸淫,通奸,奸

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural a·dul·ter·ies.

    • : voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their lawful spouse.

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Examples

  • It would have been unthinkable under the Taliban, which stoned people for adultery.

  • Although Prince Charles had admitted to adultery in a prior television interview, this was the first time a senior royal had broken free of the conventions surrounding the palace and shone a light onto its inner workings.

  • The Army Reserve has opened an investigation into whether Cunningham engaged improperly with a subordinate’s family, in possible violation of the rules concerning adultery under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  • It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.

  • But I say onto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • In fact, Rampal preached against adultery and “vulgar singing and dancing.”

  • Pounding is charged with one count each of assault, adultery, and conduct unbecoming an officer.

  • Typically, adultery charges are added to cases where there have been other offenses.

  • Adultery is a cause recognized in all of them, for which an absolute divorce can be granted.

  • We owe it neither to the Syriac tongue nor to the Hebrew, a jargon of the Syriac, in which adultery is called niuph.

  • The women of Lacedæmon, we are told, knew neither confession nor adultery.

  • Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

  • The Lacedæmonians, therefore, had good reason for saying that adultery was impossible among them.