| 单词 | carnal |
| 释义 | car·nal 1. a. < armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack — Bram Stoker > < carnal interment > b. < the carnal mother of Christ > c. obsolete 2. a. < carnal infatuation — T.S.Eliot > b. < gluttony and other carnal traits > 3. a. < the superiority of the spiritual and eternal over the carnal — H.O.Taylor > b. < should abstain from singing vain and carnal ballads — Charles Kingsley > c. < with red and bloated cheeks and carnal eyes — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonyms: < Barbara Villiers … is the most unpleasant of Charles II's mistresses … he was besotted by her purely carnal attractions — Times Literary Supplement > fleshly is close to carnal in meaning but less severe and sometimes a little apologetic in suggestion < punishments were set for the fleshly sins of monks and nuns and clergy — H.O.Taylor > sensual may simply indicate gratification of any bodily desire or pleasure < his feet and hands were always cold and there was for him an almost sensual satisfaction to be had from … letting the hot sun beat down on him — Sherwood Anderson > Usu. it indicates concentration on bodily satisfaction and absence of anything intellectual or spiritual < it ceases to be sensuous and becomes sensual. This isolation of sense is not characteristic of esthetic objects but of such things as narcotics, sexual orgasms, and gambling — John Dewey > Often it implies gross sexuality < a coarse heavy face, loose-featured, red, and sensual — Thomas Wolfe > animal, often without derogation, simply indicates bodily or sentient characteristics common to both man and animal or traits resembling those found in animals rather than man < the state in his view is not merely a convenient machinery that raises a man above his animal wants — G.L.Dickinson > < he taught the boy boxing … and superintended the direction of his animal vigor — George Meredith > |
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