n. 贞洁;纯洁;简洁
词根:chaste
adj.
chaste 纯洁的;贞洁的;有道德的;朴素的
adv.
chastely 贞洁地;纯正地;清高地
n.
chasteness 纯洁;简洁;贞操(chaste的名词)
1.Sylvester Graham, Lectures on Chastity (1834).
——西尔维斯特·格雷厄姆《贞洁演讲录》(1834年)。
2.Sometimes he would cry and be like, 'Hold me, Chastity.' You'd just have to hold him all night long.
他从不会碰我或者偷看什么的,”她说,“有时候她会哭着说,‘抱着我,Chastity’,那你只得抱他一整个晚上。”
3.Chastity before marriage is still demanded in some societies.
在有些社会中仍然要求保持结婚前贞洁。
4.The young monks took vows of chastity and obedience.
年轻的和尚们宣誓禁欲,并遵守戒律。
5.At other times in this century, premarital chastity was the norm, and many did not marry until their thirties, if at all.
在这个世纪的另一些时候,婚前守贞才是社会规范,而许多人直到30岁才会结婚,当然如果她们确实结了的话。
6.Chastity before marriage is still demanded in some societies.
有些社会仍要求婚前保持贞洁。
7.Beauty and chastity seldom meet.
美丽和纯洁几乎很少交集。
8.And, withal, a life of privation, isolation, abnegation chastity, with never a diversion.
同时,他一生刻苦、独居克己、制欲,从来不曾娱乐过。
9.As we saw in the last lecture, the elder brother holds an entirely different theory of chastity, and of course, it's a lot more optimistic.
我们上一讲中看到,哥哥对贞节有完全不同的看法,当然,他更乐观。