lust

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.

lust

lust: [OE] Lust is a Germanic word; it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *lust-, which as well as English lust had produced German lust (now used for ‘pleasure’ rather than ‘desire’). Swedish lust ‘inclination, pleasure, desire’ was borrowed from Low German. From the same Germanic ancestor came the now archaic verb list ‘desire’, source of listless. And it is possible that lascivious [15], acquired from late Latin lascīviōsus, may ultimately be related.
=> lascivious, listless

lust (n.)

Old English lust "desire, appetite, pleasure; sensuous appetite," from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch, German lust, Old Norse lyst, Gothic lustus "pleasure, desire, lust"), from PIE *las- "to be eager, wanton, or unruly" (cognates: Latin lascivus "wanton, playful, lustful;" see lascivious).

In Middle English, "any source of pleasure or delight," also "an appetite," also "a liking for a person," also "fertility" (of soil). Sense of "sinful sexual desire, degrading animal passion" (now the main meaning) developed in late Old English from the word's use in Bible translations (such as lusts of the flesh to render Latin concupiscentia carnis [I John ii:16]); the cognate words in other Germanic languages tend still to mean simply "pleasure."

lust (v.)

c. 1200, "to wish, to desire," from lust (n.) and Old English lystan (see list (v.4)). Sense of "to have a strong sexual desire (for or after)" is first attested 1520s in biblical use. Related: Lusted; lusting.

1. His lust for her grew until it was overpowering.

他企图在肉体上占有她的欲望变得一发不可收拾。

2. The mobs became driven by a crazed blood-lust to take the city.

杀红了眼的暴徒们意欲占领这座城市。

3. 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。

4. 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。

5. This is lust thinly disguised as love.

这表面是爱，其实是赤裸的欲望。