harlot
英 [ˈhɑːlət]
美 [ˈhɑːrlət]
n. 妓女; 荡妇
复数：harlots
BNC.35118 / COCA.28530
牛津词典
noun
- 妓女；荡妇
a prostitute , or a woman who looks and behaves like one
柯林斯词典
- 娼妓;淫妇
If someone describes a woman as aharlot, they disapprove of her because she is a prostitute, or because she looks or behaves like a prostitute.
英英释义
noun
- a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
双语例句
- And Samson went down to gaza; and there he saw a harlot and went in unto her.
参孙到了迦萨，在那里看见一个妓女，就与她亲近。 - The cold smile of a deceased harlot.
一个死妓女冰冷的微笑。 - And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
38：22他回去见犹大说，我没有找着她，并且那地方的人说，这里没有妓女。 - Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
38：21就问那地方的人说，伊拿印路旁的妓女在哪里，他们说，这里并没有妓女。 - For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.
因为娼妓所求的只是一块饼，有夫之妇却猎取宝贵的生命。 - Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?
我可以将基督的肢体作为娼妓的肢体吗。 - And "Dutch widow" was slang for harlot.
“荷兰寡妇”则是俚语，意为娼妓。 - Why should I approve of his cavorting with a harlot?
另外我为什么要赞成国王娶一个妓女为妻？ - And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
且为我的百姓拈阄，将童子换妓女，卖童女买酒喝。 - He felt that Latin was a corrupted, elitist language, and that the use of it in serious prose had turned literature into a harlot by making universal narrative into something that could only be bought with money, through the privilege of an aristocratic education.
他觉得拉丁文是一种讹误的精英语言，用之于严肃的散文上时，让普遍的叙述转变成必须经由贵族教育特权才能阅读，也就是必须用钱才能买得到的东西，使文学成为妓女。