名詞 celibate:

1. an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity

形容詞 celibate:

1. abstaining from sexual intercourse
   同義詞：continent

cel.i.bate

n.（名詞）
One who abstains from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows.
禁欲的人：禁絕性關(guān)系的人，尤指因?yàn)樽诮淌难远娜?/br>One who is unmarried.
獨(dú)身的人，未結(jié)婚的人
adj.（形容詞）
Abstaining from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows.
禁欲的：禁絕性關(guān)系的人，尤指由于宗教誓言而禁欲的
Unmarried; unwed.
未婚的；沒(méi)結(jié)婚的

來(lái)源：
Latin caelib3tus
拉丁語(yǔ) caelib3tus
From caelebs caelib- [unmarried]
源自 caelebs caelib- [未婚的]

Historically,celibate means only .unmarried.; its use to mean .abstaining from sexual intercourse. is a 20th-century development.But the new sense of the word appears more or less to have displaced the old,and the use ofcelibate to mean .unmarried. is now almost sure to invite misinterpretation in other than narrowly ecclesiastical contexts.Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejected the older use in the sentenceHe remained celibate [unmarried] , although he engaged in sexual intercourse.
歷史上，celibate 只作.未婚的.解； 用作.禁欲.的意思是在20世紀(jì)發(fā)展起來(lái)的。但是該詞的新含義多少有取代原含義的趨勢(shì)，并用celibate 作.未婚的.意義， 現(xiàn)在除了在狹小的神學(xué)領(lǐng)域外幾乎都會(huì)引起誤解。用法專(zhuān)題使用小組百分之六十八的成員在句子他仍是單身的 ［未婚的］ ，盡管他仍保有性生活 中，拒絕使用該詞的舊含義