prostitute是什么意思？

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；

复数：prostitutes;

第三人称单数：prostitutes;

过去式：prostituted;

过去分词：prostituted;

现在分词：prostituting;

例句

• 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。
• To make matters worse, Jesus has begun consorting with disreputable people like Mary Magdalene, a prostitute. 耶稣开始安慰一些像是马利亚这样名誉不好的妓女,而这样的行为似乎让事情变的更糟.
• A prostitute was soliciting on the street. 一名妓女正在街上拉客.
• Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead ; his mother was a prostitute. 基列人耶弗他是个大能的勇士、是妓女的儿子. 耶弗他是基列所生的.
• No Israelite man or woman is to become a shrine prostitute. 以色列的女子中不可有妓女. 以色列的男子中不可有娈童.
• Higher education is being forced to prostitute itself to market forces. 高等教育被迫向市场需求妥协。
• ...this terrible story of famine and a woman who's forced to prostitute herself in order to get food. 这个关于饥荒和一个女人为了糊口被迫沦为娼妓的悲惨故事
• He admitted last week he paid for sex with a prostitute. 他承认上个星期嫖娼了。
• She became a prostitute in order to pay for her cocaine habit. 她以娼养吸。
• When I asked him if he had ever been to a prostitute he said he wouldn't degrade himself like that. 我问他是否找过妓女时，他说他不会自贬身份去干那种事情。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  妓女；娼妓
  A prostitute is a person, usually a woman, who has sex with men in exchange for money.
  例句
  He admitted last week he paid for sex with a prostitute. 他承认上个星期嫖娼了。 ...male prostitutes. 男妓
• VERB
  （使）沦为娼妓
  If someone prostitutes a woman or if a woman prostitutes herself, she has sex or is made to have sex with men for money.
  例句
  ...this terrible story of famine and a woman who's forced to prostitute herself in order to get food. 这个关于饥荒和一个女人为了糊口被迫沦为娼妓的悲惨故事 ...prostituting his beautiful daughters. 迫使他美丽的女儿出卖肉体
• VERB
  （为名利）出卖（才能）
  If you prostitute yourself or your talents, you do work for money or to be famous, rather than because you think it is good work or the right thing to do.
  例句
  Higher education is being forced to prostitute itself to market forces. 高等教育被迫向市场需求妥协。 ...haunted by the idea of his friends whispering about his having prostituted his talent. 对他的朋友背地议论他糟践自己的才华而感到烦恼

英汉词典释义

• n.
  卖淫者;妓女;男妓;娼妓
  the men who use prostitutes 嫖娼的男子 A prostitute was soliciting on the street. 一名妓女正在街上拉客。 He was arrested on charges of controlling prostitutes. 他因为被指控操纵娼妓而被捕。 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。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
• Verb
  1. sell one's body; exchange sex for money