adultery的意思|adultery的解释-里氏词典

adultery [ə'dʌltəri]

n. 通奸

[法] 通奸

She has an adultery affair with the man.
她与那个男人有奸情。
The act or an instance of adultery.
通奸通奸的行为或例子
I was surprised to hear that Johnson had been divorced by his wife on the grounds of adultery. I thought he always kept to the straight and narrow.
听到约翰逊因通奸而被其妻子离弃，我大吃一惊。我原以为他一向过着来淡而正派的生活呢。

adultery

[ noun ]
extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations
<noun.act>
adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce

Adultery \A*dul"ter*y\, n.; pl. {Adulteries}. [L. adulterium.
See {Advoutry}.]
1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage
bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than
his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married
woman with another than her husband.

Note: It is adultery on the part of the married wrongdoer.
The word has also been used to characterize the act of
an unmarried participator, the other being married. In
the United States the definition varies with the local
statutes. Unlawful intercourse between two married
persons is sometimes called {double adultery}; between
a married and an unmarried person, {single adultery}.

2. Adulteration; corruption. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

3. (Script.)
(a) Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as
forbidden by the seventh commandment.
(b) Faithlessness in religion. --Jer. iii. 9.

4. (Old Law) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of
adultery.

5. (Eccl.) The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during
the life of the bishop.

6. Injury; degradation; ruin. [Obs.]

You might wrest the caduceus out of my hand to the
adultery and spoil of nature. --B. Jonson.

Twenty-seven states still have adultery laws on the books, a survey by the Harvard Law Review found, but legal scholars say few states make much effort to enforce them.
The jury also acquitted him of adultery and of exposing his former fiancee, Jeannie Elmer, to the AIDS virus.
A lower court today convicted six people of adultery and sentenced them to death by stoning under an Islamic law.
He was a zealous Moslem who stamped Islamic law on his nation, but did not enforce such cruel punishments as amputation for theft and stoning to death for adultery.
Before this year, just two people were charged with adultery since 1985.
She was convicted that year of adultery and fraternization, but the verdict was overturned by military appeals courts.
If the prosecutors who charged the book with obscenity are to be believed, this sloping quarter of 'boarding schools, churches and big derelict mansions' was the birthplace of modern adultery.
When those in favor of abolishing the law were asked their reasons, 66 percent said adultery was an individual concern, not a matter for the government.
"I Love You to Death," a comedy about adultery and murder for hire, landed in sixth with a gate of $4 million.
The Justice Ministry has said it will ask the National Assembly to abolish the law, but the institute said 51 percent of those polled oppose the move to drop adultery from the criminal codes.
"The public could condone murder as retribution for adultery," writes Mr. Brandt, "but it could not condone a murderer's willingness to forgive." With pathos and bathos, the couple tried to mend their pitiful lives.
These South Koreans feel that if penalties for adultery are revoked, illicit sex will increase and public morals will decline, the Korea Applied Statistical Research Institute said its survey indicates.
A fundamentalist minister who left his pulpit three years ago in disgrace after confessing to adultery began preaching again Sunday, with forgiveness one of his themes.
A slim majority of South Koreans oppose abolishing a law under which people convicted of adultery can be sentenced up to a year in jail, according to a survey released today.
Many sentences were passed and implemented under Sharia law, including cutting off hands for theft, flogging and public disgrace for adultery.
He was sentenced by the same panel of eight officers that found him guilty Friday of attempted murder and two counts of conduct unbecoming an officer, involving perjury and adultery.
It's ended up a weak imitation of the original, trying to tie in a detective story about adultery with a larger story about greedy developers ruining the Los Angeles landscape.
But that is like saying the Ten Commandments should be discarded because they have not eliminated theft, lying and adultery.
And to date, Egypt has no sperm or embryo banks, nor can women give birth as surrogates for others, because many clerics and Moslem doctors say these practices risk adultery.
The thriller "Fatal Attraction" was by far the biggest moneymaker of the year, its combination of adultery and terror selling $150 million worth of tickets in the United States and Canada.
Evangelist Marvin Gorman, who claimed Swaggart falsely accused him of adultery, for which he was defrocked by the denomination, reportedly gave the church photographs of Swaggart entering and leaving a motel room with a prostitute.
"It is imperative that adultery remain outlawed to protect the existing marital system and harmonious family life and prevent social harms that might be caused by it," the ruling said.
From that moment the plot kicks into high gear, with adultery, blindness, incest, attempted murder and accidental death following hard upon one another in a manner which manages to be both shocking and utterly natural.
Her mother-child suicide attempt was carried out in shame over her husband's alleged adultery.
Thou shalt not commit adultery!
Somebody once said that without adultery you don't have the novel.

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