prostitute
英 [ˈprɒstɪtju:t] 美 [ˈprɑstətut]

n.

卖淫者，妓女；男妓；卖身投靠的人；出卖贞操的人

vt.

使卖淫，卖身；出卖（名誉等）；滥用（能力等）；卖淫，卖身

adj.

卖淫的，堕落的；

变形

复数：prostitutes过去式：prostituted过去分词：prostituted现在分词：prostituting第三人称单数：prostitutes

英英释义

prostitute[ 'prɔstitju:t ]

• n.a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

  同义词：cocottewhoreharlotbawdtartcyprianfancy womanworking girlsporting ladylady of pleasurewoman of the street

• v.sell one's body; exchange sex for money

词组短语

prostitute oneself卖淫

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The prostitute was hopped up with morphine.
   那个妓女在吗啡的作用下昏昏沉沉。
2. She was arrested and charged with being a common prostitute.
   她被逮捕并受到以卖淫为业的指控。
3. Police are inestigating the homicide of a prostitute.
   警方正在调查一起妓女被杀案件。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. She prostituted herself in order to support her children.
   她为养活子女而操皮肉生涯。
2. How shameful he is to prostitute his honour.
   他出卖自己的荣誉真可耻。

权威例句

Prostitute women and public health.
Prostitute women and AIDS: anthropology.
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Marriage, divorce, and the prostitute in ancient Mesopotamia
Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body
Mortality in a Long-term Open Cohort of Prostitute Women
Regulating sex work in the EU: prostitute women and the new spaces of exclusion
Determinants of condom use in 24,000 prostitute/client contacts in The Gambia
The male street prostitute: a vector for transmission of HIV infection into the heterosexual world.
Ouch!: Western Feminists' 'Wounded Attachment' to the 'Third World Prostitute'