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pros·ti·tute 英ˈprɒstɪˌtuːt, -ˌtjuːt美ˈprɑstɪˌtut, -ˌtjutAHDprŏsʹtĭ-t›t', -ty›t' ★★☆☆☆高四八COCA⁸⁴⁴⁰BNC¹³³⁴⁸iWeb¹⁰⁸²⁵Economist²⁰⁴⁰⁷⁺⁸
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n.娼妓⁴⁴;为赚钱而作坏事的人¹⁰adj.卖淫的²¹;堕落的¹⁵vt.卖身¹⁰;贬损自己复数prostitutes名词prostitutor过去分词prostituted现在分词prostituting三单prostitutes
Noun:
a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
Verb:
sell one's body; exchange sex for money前缀pro-表“向前，在前”；词根stit-表“站、立”，如constitute组成，本义“站在一起”；所以该词本义为“向前站，站于人前”，含有站在人面前，供人挑选的意味。钱博士pro向前向外，引申为公开+stit词根st-的过去分词形式，转作动词词根，表示“使站立”，引申为“摆放”+ute拉丁语动词的过去分词后缀，在此除了构成动词外，还可以构成形容词和名词，表示动作完成后的结果→把女性公开摆放在外面，使其暴露在男性面前→使卖淫，使沦为娼妓⇒卖淫的，堕落的；妓女
词根st-站立来自拉丁语。它和希腊词根sta-站立及日耳曼单词stand站立同源，最终都源自原始印欧语词根*sta-站立。pro向前向外，引申为公开+stit词根st-的过去分词形式，转作动词词根，表示“使站立”，引申为“摆放”+ute拉丁语动词的过去分词后缀，在此除了构成动词外，还可以构成形容词和名词，表示动作完成后的结果→把女性公开摆放在外面，使其暴露在男性面前→使卖淫，使沦为娼妓⇒卖淫的，堕落的；妓女。词根记忆pro前面+stitute=放站在路前的人=妓女近义词 bawd鸨母tart 酸的whore妓女harlot妓女baggage行李pervert误用Cyprian妓女cocotte妓女fancy woman情妇sporting lady妓女lady of pleasure娼妓working girl工作女郎woman of the street娼妓
动词79%,名词21%
用作名词Theprostitutewas hopped up with morphine.那个妓女在吗啡的作用下昏昏沉沉。
She was arrested and charged with being a commonprostitute.她被逮捕并受到以卖淫为业的指控。
Police are inestigating the homicide of aprostitute.警方正在调查一起妓女被杀案件。用作及物动词Sheprostitutedherself in order to support her children.她为养活子女而操皮肉生涯。
How shameful he is toprostitutehis honour.他出卖自己的荣誉真可耻。noun.person who sells sex
同义词 call girl,gigolo,hooker,streetwalker,whoreverb.to put one's talent to an unworthy use
同义词 debase,demean,pervertabuse,cheapen,corrupt,debauch,degrade,deprave,devalue,misapply,misuse,profane,vitiatemisemploy
abuseverb use wrongly
dissipate,exhaust,misemploy,mishandle,misuse,overburden,overtax,overwork,spoil,squander,taint,waste
bawdnoun prostitute
call girl,camp follower,courtesan,doxy,harlot,hussy,lady of pleasure,lady of the night,pro,prostitute,scarlet woman,streetwalker,strumpet,tart,tramp,trollop,whore,working girl
call girlnoun female prostitute
B-girl,harlot,hooker,hustler,lady of the evening,prostitute,scarlet woman,streetwalker,whore,working girl
courtesannoun mistress
concubine,paramour,prostitute,whore
desecrateverb abuse, violate
befoul,blaspheme,commit sacrilege,contaminate,defile,depredate,desolate,despoil,devastate,devour,dishonor,make lose face,mess up,pervert,pillage,pollute,profane,prostitute,ravage,sack,spoil,spoliate,waste
floozynoun sexually promiscuous woman
bimbo,doxy,hooker,moll,nympho,piece of tail,prostitute,tramp,whore And how can they be taken seriously if, as in Russia, the term“ businesswoman” is synonymous with prostitute?
如果——正如在俄国，“女商人”一词听起来与“妓女”无异的话——她们如何才能被严肃对待？ ecocn
Directed by Feroz Khan, the movie tells the story of a gangster and a prostituteMadhuri and their attempt to live an honourable life.
这部电影讲述了一个强盗和一个妓女之间的爱情故事，记录了他们对颓废过去的抛弃，对美好生活的渴求与向往。 yeeyan
His zeal was undoubtedly fired by the fact that he was the son of a prostitute.
毫无疑问，母亲是妓女这一事实是引燃了他这种狂热的罪魁祸首。 yeeyan
The spy was caught by a policewoman who posed as a prostitute.
间谍被一个假扮妓女的女警察抓住了。《21世纪大英汉词典》
The use of the terms like“ prostitution” and “ prostitute”, restrict a person’s identity to the activities she engages in.
使用诸如“卖淫”、“娼妓”这样的词就限制了一个人在社会活动中的身份。 yeeyan
And watching you may see a nun walking toward your right hand, and a prostitute toward your left hand.
望着望着地，你也许看见一个尼姑向你右手边走来，一个妓女向你左手边走来。 ebigear
But she said she never worked as a prostitute— though she had tried once and failed when she yelled at a client.
但她说她从来没有当过妓女——尽管她试过一次，但是以她和嫖客的争吵告终。 yeeyan
In recent years, however, “ prostitute parades” have been met with public derision.
然而在最近几年，“妓女游街”遭遇到的却是公众的嘲笑。 yeeyan
Italian prosecutors have requested that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi be put on trial immediately for allegedly paying an underage prostitute for sex and using his power to cover it up.
意大利检察官要求贝卢斯科尼总理立即就有关他付钱与未成年妓女发生性关系以及滥用职权掩盖此事的指称接受审判。 hxen
Milton explains the preposterous of the idea that he has ever visited a prostitute.
弥尔顿对这个荒谬的说法解释到,他曾经拜访过一个妓女。163
Nearby, on the steps of a vacant building, a fat prostitute had come out to ply her trade.
不远处，在那栋空房子的台阶上，一个肥胖的妓女正出来招揽生意。 ecocn
On the day of my speech, our campaign was rocked by press reports that Dick Morris had frequently been with a prostitute in his hotel room when he was in Washington working for me.
在我发表演说那天，我们的大选活动受到新闻报道干扰，报道说迪克·莫里斯在华盛顿为我工作的时候，经常在酒店与一名妓女混在一起。 yeeyan
One involved a scene where he interviewed a prostitute— the film could not say she was a sex worker.
有一条是关于他采访一个妓女——电影里不能够说出她是性工作者。 yeeyan
Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.
只有妓女喇合与她家中所有的可以存活，因为她隐藏了我们所打发的使者。 ebigear
Police are investigating the homicide of a prostitute.
警方正在调查一起妓女被杀案件。 ebigear
She became the effective prisoner of a drugs gang that used her as a prostitute and kept her earnings, or gave her away free to gang members as a “ reward”.
她成为了一个毒品团伙真正的俘虏，该团伙利用她从事卖淫活动，并扣压了她的收入，或者把她作为“奖赏”交给团伙中的成员任由他们处置。 yeeyan
She worked as a prostitute for a month, until I met her and freed her.
她做了一个月的妓女，直到我见到她把她救了出来。 yeeyan
So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
于是二人去了，来到一个妓女名叫喇合的家里，就在那里躺卧。 ebigear
They said this was his punishment for renting a flat to a woman who they claimed was a prostitute, and for allegedly having sex with her.
这些警员称，米特里受到惩罚是由于他为一名被指是妓女的女人租了公寓，并且据说还同她发生了性关系。 ecocn
Unless, of course, you are a working prostitute.
当然，除非你是正在工作的妓女。 yeeyan
Unless that youth is a prostitute.
除非那个年轻人是位妓女。 yeeyan
With that being said, it’s safe to agree the question of what makes a person a prostitute or not has been debated for years.
有了这样的说法，我们可以安心地对多年来争论不休的关于什么使一个人成为妓女的问题下结论了。 yeeyan |