permissive
adjective /pəˈmɪsɪv/
/pərˈmɪsɪv/
- allowing or showing a freedom of behaviour that many people do not approve of, especially in sexual matters
放任的；纵容的；姑息的；（尤指两性关系）放纵的 - permissive attitudes
纵容的态度 - permissive parents (= who allow their children a lot of freedom)
放任的父母
- a highly permissive attitude
极为开放的态度 - a society that is sexually permissive
性开放的社会 - Even in the most permissive times fidelity in marriage is important to many.
就算是在最宽容的时代，对婚姻的忠诚对许多人来说依然很重要。 - He grew up before the permissive society.
他成长的年代是在20世纪六七十年代的宽容社会形成之前。 - The Fifties were not a permissive era.
五十年代不是一个放纵的时代。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
词源late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- ‘allowed’, from the verb permittere, from per- ‘through’ + mittere ‘send, let go’. - permissive attitudes