whore-house
英 ['hɔ:rh'aʊs]
美 ['hɔrh'aʊs]
- 妓院
英语词源
- whore-house (n.)
- early 14c., from whore (n.) + house (n.). Sometimes translating Latin lupanaria. Obsolete from c. 1700, revived early 20c. in American English.
权威例句
- 1. She is just a two - bit whore.
- 她只是一个不入流的娼妓.
- 2. The woman's a whore, and there's an end.
- 那个女人是个淫妇, 这就是结论.
- 3. Even if she were a virtueless woman , or a shameless whore, she would be Queen nevertheless.
- 但纵然没有任何德性,纵然不过是个娼妓,那时候, 她也仍旧是王后.
- 4. So the message is, I should treat every woman like a whore?
- 你要传达的讯息就是我要像对待妓女一样对待每个女人?
- 5. Besides, he has a whore in Rome who calls herself a princess.
- 此外, 他在罗马还勾搭上了一个娼妓,她管自己叫公主.