chastity
chastity 英 [ˈtʃæstəti] 美 [ˈtʃæstɪti]
n. 贞洁；纯洁；简洁
名词复数:chastities
- If you practice chastity, it means you aren’t having sex of any kind, perhaps because you’re waiting until you get married, or maybe because you believe sex is evil.
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- n. 贞洁；纯洁；简洁
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1. And I think it's impossible not to see that when Milton substitutes the virtue charity with the far more circumscribed ideal of chastity.
而我认为当弥尔顿把更加局限的贞操去代替局限的仁爱时,这不可能读不出来,虽然贞洁更加局限。
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2. He manages to discard that youthful, that uncouth, affection for chastity that had been such a part of his imagination, and he marries a young woman named Mary Powell.
他抛弃了那个年少无知，粗鄙的，对于纯洁的热爱，这曾是他想象的一部分，并且他和一个名为玛丽鲍威尔的女人结婚了。
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3. But the Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman got it all wrong because what it says there is that“The Topas and the Truffle haue power of chastity, and to subdue the flesh.
但是《迈斯特尔·克里斯托弗·卡坦绅士的地相术》完全弄错了这一点，因为文中曾说：“黄玉与块菌有纯洁的力量，能够征服肉体。”
- chastity (n.) c. 1200, chastete, "sexual purity" (as defined by the Church), including but not limited to virginity or celibacy, from Old French chastete "chastity, purity" (12c., Modern French chasteté), from Latin castitatem (nominative castitas) "purity, chastity" from castus "cut off, separated; pure" (see caste). Chastity-belt is from 1894 (belt of chastity is from 1878).
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