强烈的性欲;肉欲,色情;强烈的欲望;渴望,热烈追求;

这三个词都可表示“欲望”。它们的区别是:
desire可指各种欲望,包括好的和不好的; craving表示强烈的欲望,尤指被认为是不好的欲望,如:a craving for cigarettes抽烟的强烈欲望; lust语气很强,通常用作贬义词,如:the lust for power权欲。
词源词根法
来自古英语lust,渴望,胃口,愉悦,追求,来自Proto-Germanic,需要,渴望,来自PIE*las,没有管制的,没有控制的,可能来自PIE*leu,松开,词源同lose,loose.后主要用于指性欲,肉欲,其它词义逐渐消失。词义演变比较wanton,lascivious.
词组短语
lust for贪求;
If lust is all there is to hold you together, the relationship will never work.
如果肉欲是你们在一起的唯一理由,这种关系是不会持久的。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Application: Lust and pornography are disobedient uses of our minds and eyes.
原则应用: 召妓是一种误用身体的罪行.这是与娼妓的身体灵魂结合.
来源:网络文摘精选Love will be uplifted, praised, but lust will be hated and condemned!
爱要被高举 、 被赞颂, 情欲却要被恨恶、被定罪!
来源:互联网摘选The ogre demanded the annual sacrifice of a young village lass to satisfy his blood lust.
这个食人巨妖要求村里每年献祭一个少女来满足他的嗜血欲.
来源:《简明英汉词典》Lust now seems to be associated with casual sex and loose morals.
色欲如今似乎与性生活随便和道德放纵联系在一起了。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Desire is your drive, passion, urge, or lust for wanting to have sex.
性欲是你想要做爱的动力 、 情 、 望或渴求.
来源:网络文摘精选Yet this same lust for tyrannical conquest is also their greatest weakness.
同时,对于残忍征服的渴望也是他们的最大弱点.
来源:网络文摘精选His relationship with Angie was the first which combined lust with friendship.
他和安吉的关系属第一种,即肉欲加友谊。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.
雅1:14但各人被试探、是被自己的私欲牵引诱惑的.
来源:网络文摘精选All people, she said, lived their lives in bondage to hunger, pain and lust.
她说,所有人的生活都受缚于饥饿、苦痛和欲望。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》It'seemed less to cast out the evils of humanity than to feed its blood lust.
看来与其说是消弭了人类的罪恶,倒不如说是满足了人类的杀戮欲.
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