adultery
adultery 英 [əˈdʌltəri] 美 [əˈdʌltəri,-tri]
n. 通奸，通奸行为
名词复数:adulteries
- Adultery is a word for cheating — cheating on your spouse with another person. Adultery isn’t a crime, but some people consider it a sin.
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- n. 通奸，通奸行为
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1. Discussions of marriage cannot avoid topics such as impotence and adultery.
讨论婚姻不可能避开性无能和通奸这样的题目。
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2. While infidelity rates do appear to be rising, a vast majority of people still say adultery is wrong, and most men and women do not appear to be unfaithful.
在不忠比率是在上涨的时候，绝大部分人还是认为通奸是不对的，而且大多数的男人女人看起来不会做出不忠的事。
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3. Since these people aren’t always married to each other, that means about 80 percent of all marriages are “touched” by adultery.
这些人并不总是一对夫妻，那就意味着大约80%的夫妇都和“通奸”有着这样那样的关系。
- adultery (n.) "voluntary violation of the marriage bed," c. 1300, avoutrie, from Old French avouterie (12c., later adulterie, Modern French adultĕre), noun of condition from avoutre, from Latin adulterare "commit adultery; corrupt," from ad "to" (see ad-) + alterare "to alter" (see alter). Compare adulteration. The spelling was corrected toward Latin from early 15c. in English, following French (see ad-).
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