Celibate

celibate







Y

獨身者;獨身主義者

D



–noun 

1. a person who abstains from sexual relations. 

2. a person who remains unmarried, esp. for religious reasons.  



–adjective 

3. observing or pertaining to sexual abstention (戒絕) or a religious vow not to marry. 

4. not married.  



abstention

戒絕;節制

棄權





　

"Clerks," which contains no nudity or violence, was originally classified NC-17 by the MPAA just on the basis of its language - which includes the kind of graphic descriptions of improbable sex acts that guys sometimes indulge in while killing [vast amounts of] celibate time.





see abstain



stoic 

asceticism hedonistic



nubile 

spinster harridan

bequeath besot expiate

matron