carnal: [15] Carnal means literally ‘of the flesh’; it comes from late Latin carnālis, a derivative of Latin carō ‘flesh, meat’. Other English words from the same source are carnivorous ‘meateating’ [17]; carnage [16], which came via French carnage and Italian carnaggio from medieval Latin carnāticum ‘slaughter of animals’; carnation [16], which originally meant ‘pink, colour of flesh’ and came via French carnation and Italian carnagione from late Latin carnātiō ‘fleshiness, fatness’; charnel [14], as in charnel house, from Old French charnel; and also carnival and carrion. => carnage, carnation, carnival, carnivorous, carrion, charnel
c. 1400, "physical, human, mortal," from Old French carnal and directly from Medieval Latin carnalis "natural, of the same blood," from Latin carnis "of the flesh," genitive of caro "flesh, meat" (see carnage). Meaning "sensual" is from early 15c.; that of "worldly, sinful" is from mid-15c. Carnal knowledge is attested from early 15c. and was in legal use by 1680s.
双语例句
1. Their ruling passion is that of carnal love.
他们现在情欲正盛。
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2. The carnal man fears death a beast fears slaughter.
按**行事的人害怕死亡,犹如牲畜害怕被人宰杀一般.
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3. Our life on earth is, and ought to be , material and carnal.
在这世上我们的生活是, 也应该是特质的、**的.
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4. The carnal Jews hold a midway place between Christians and heathens.
**的犹太人处于基督教徒与异教徒之间.
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5. Have carnal knowledge of last 13 day the dilatation and curettage.
