celibate

celibate

美 [ˈseləbət] 　英 ['selɪbət]

• adj.独身的；禁欲的
• n.独身者；禁欲者
• 网络独身生活的人a独身的；独身主义者

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例句

This devotion is the reason that the traditions of southern India represent him as celibate (see the anecdote Devotion to his mother).

这种热爱的原因就是南印度的传统把甘尼萨描绘成一位独身者（看看他献身于他母亲的秩事）。

This was a time when permanent fellows of a Cambridge college had to be unmarried, celibate and take holy orders.

在这个时代，剑桥大学的终身教授必须保持未婚，独身禁欲并且担任圣职。

"If I weren't so fat, I'd have made you a good wife, " she teasingly told Patriarch Bartholomew who, as an Orthodox bishop, is celibate.

“我要不是这么胖的话，就要做你的好妻子。”海森夫人故意揶揄巴塞罗缪主教——这位东正教主教还是单身。

He portrayed himself as a celibate, a pose calculated to epitomize his moral fiber, but he had at least two wives or perhaps concubines.

他把自己描绘为一位独身主义者，故意摆出某种姿态来象徵他的坚定品格，但是他至少有两位妻子或小妾。

After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

亲眼见到两名大男孩后，我开始盘算是否应该调整一下今年过独身生活的规定。

In the beginning of early Christianity, see, you did not have the celibate ministr.

在早期基督教之初，是没有独身神职的。

If their wife dies after they become a priest, they're expected to stay celibate and single for the rest of their lives also.

成为牧师后，如果妻子死了，他们也要在后半生，保持独身。

If you are celibate, you are making the effort not to do something that you really want to do. I don't want to do it in the first place!

如果你是独身主义者，你只是努力避免去做一件你很想做的事，而我打从一开始就压根不想要这么做！

Oppressor lets Huo Jia sit beside oneself, say gently to his ear: "Is you married still celibate? "

暴君让霍加坐在自己身边，对着他的耳朵轻轻地说：“你结了婚还是独身？”

He would discourage in both the householders and the celibate youths any lukewarmness in their spiritual struggles.

他不鼓励居士和年轻独身者对灵性奋斗出现冷淡的行为。

Those elderly celibate females in the city are mostly the so-called 'talented ladies' which refers to the highly-educated ones.

城市里的大龄未婚女青年大多数是所谓的“才女”，即受过较高等教育的女子。

I'm not exercising self-restraint and it's not the same as choosing to be celibate.

我没有强行控制自己的欲望。所以，我与选择禁欲的人不同。

Numb the pain is too much, I do not know the future will be like Momo's songs, stubborn guard celibate?

痛得太多也就麻木了，我不知道今后会不会像莫莫的歌，监守顽固独身主义？

Churches that believe their priests must be celibate in order to be like Jesus are not about to change their rules, though.

尽管有些教堂认为，要像耶稣一样，它们的牧师就必须独身，但它们现在并不打算改变规矩。

For Kandis, there's no doubt she is an addict. She's been celibate for eight weeks, and hasn't masturbated.

对于肯迪丝，毫无疑问她是一个成瘾者，可她已禁欲八周，也没有自慰。

One was a droll, sarcastic satirist; the other was a celibate mad scientist.

他们两个，一个是爱开玩笑，语言辛辣的讽刺作家，另一个是过着独身生活的癫狂科学家。

Controlling lust by remaining celibate when single, leading to faithfulness in marriage.

独处时，保持禁欲，控制情欲，婚后应忠诚。

There are plenty of eukaryotes that multiply by cloning rather than sex, but almost all turned celibate only very recently.

有许许多多的真核生物秉持无性复制而非有性方式，但几乎所有的独身者们都在离现在很近的年代里转变了立场。

The laity, however, everywhere preferred their priests celibate.

然而，俗众却到处渴望他们的祭司过独身生活。

So for celibate rotifers that want to stay clean, a good long dry spell is just what the doctor ordered.

因此独身的轮虫类要想保持清白，医生的指令就是保持较长的干燥期。

Many cerebral narcissists are celibate even when married.

许多大脑自恋者甚至在他们结婚后还会保持禁欲状态。

The God remained celibate throughout his life, and valued self-control, renunciation and resistance to sensuality among his worshippers .

这位神一生中仍然保持独身。价值于自我控制，弃绝和抵制他的崇拜者的引诱。

Elderly married people still having sex were happier in life and marriage than their celibate compatriots.

相对于单身的老年人，仍然过性生活的已婚老年人在生活和婚姻方面更幸福。

But why, then, did the apostle Paul, himself celibate, not mention Jesus and Mary when he argued that apostles could marry (1 Cor. 9: 5)?

但是，那作为禁欲者的保罗为什么不在他要说明门徒可以结婚（林前九：5）时不提及耶稣和玛利亚来证明呢？

The Pope bluntly told the world's priests yesterday to stay celibate.

教皇昨天直言全世界的神父都应该禁欲。

Now, the life of a monk is a celibate life, correct?

也就是说，一名僧人的生活就是独身的生活，对吗？

Even C. fluminea and their seemingly celibate cousins have sex on the odd occasion.

就算亚洲蛤和它那些看似独身主义的近亲也会时不时过次性生活。

The celibate ministry comes about later.

独身神职后来才出现。

The Catholic Church is perpetually short of priests, not least because it limits its recruitment to well-educated celibate males.

天主教会始终都缺乏神父，尤其是因为它限制了招收受过良好教育的独身男性。

I'm quite celibate now; I don't really get time to meet anyone.

我现在是个独身者；我其实真的没有什么时间约会。

And one of the reasons is that among the creed of Shaker-dom is that one should be celibate.

其中的一个原因是，他们的信条当中，有一条求要独身。

There are probably a couple of million celibate people in Britain, but there were no dating sites for people who wanted love but not sex.

英联邦很可能有数百万无性人群，但是却没有针对这些渴望爱情，但不想要性的人士的交友网站。

You have to remain celibate and, as we will see in the coming week, this is important to Milton.

你必须如隐者一样孑然一身，我们在下一周会看到，这对米尔顿来说是多么重要。

whence it comes, no doubt, that he was a celibate all his life

毫无疑问，他这一生都会独身一人；

Measurement and related factor analysis of areolar diameter in young celibate women

未婚青年女性乳晕直径的测定及相关因素分析