If you describe someone as prurient, you mean that they show too much interest in sexual matters.
例句
We read the gossip written about them with prurient interest.我们翻看他们的八卦时带着不洁的想法。
英汉词典释义
adj.
好色的,淫秽的,引起淫欲的
prurient thoughts.淫思色欲prurient literature.色情文学
英英词典释义
Adjective
1. characterized by lust;
"eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer""her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature""prurient literature""prurient thoughts""a salacious rooster of a little man"