brothel
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詞形變化
復數:brothels
英漢雙解
1. | 妓院a house where people pay to have sex with prostitutes |
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英英解釋
例句
The possibility of rejection by her mother was almost as frightening as the idea of finishing her life in the brothel.
被她母親拒絕的可能性幾乎與在妓院終其一生的想法一樣恐怖。
News spread, many wealthy Chinese population set Maichang the garden yard (commonly known as the brothel), open celebrations.
消息傳開,許多有錢的中國人群集賣唱的園子里(妓院的俗稱),公開歡慶。
I once saw a suited and affluent man almost punching his way out of a brothel.
我曾經看到過一個富態西裝男幾乎是一路沖出妓院。
At the beginning, I knew only about a young teenage girl imprisoned on the third floor of a brothel in a red-light district here in Kolkata.
事件一開始,我所知道的僅僅是在加爾各答紅燈區某座妓院的三樓房間里囚禁著一位年幼的少女。
One of the girls who was sold into the sex trade told CNN that before she could read she was working in a brothel.
一個女孩告訴CNN記者,她還不認字的時候就被賣到了妓院提供性服務。
Brothel was an indecent existence in the eyes of a common lady and brothel girls were all wanton women as well.
在尋常女子眼里,青樓是不正經的存在,青樓女子更是淫娃蕩婦。
Following a close study of the plot, experts have decided it was the site of an ancient brothel and terrible infanticides took place there.
隨著這一事件的密切研究,專家已確認那里曾是一家古老的妓院,那里曾發生過可怕的殺嬰行為。
"It's tough working out on your own, and the numbers will make it worth your while to be working in a brothel, " said Mr Grey.
“出去靠自己接活真的很辛苦,而在妓院里工作的話接客數量會讓你覺得很劃算,”格雷先生說。
I wish I could have ended the column there. But a few days later, Srey Mom quarreled with her mother and fled to her old brothel in Poipet.
我本希望這篇專欄就此打住,但就在幾天后,SreyMom和她媽媽吵了一架,又逃回了波貝的那家妓院。
Yet she, like all of India, is at a turning point, and it looks as if her family may instead sell her to a brothel.
然而目前,她與眾多印度同齡人一樣,已經到了命運的轉折關頭,因為她的家人似乎在準備把她出售給妓院。
(On her 19th century Halifax home, a former brothel) I come in at night and expect to see some transparent slut at the top of the stairs.
(關于她家19世紀的老房子,過去是個妓院)我晚上進去的時候,希望看到樓梯上站著一個透明的風塵女。
I defy anyone to walk out of a brothel or to walk out of an orphanage leaving those people behind.
我蔑視任何走出妓院,走出孤兒院就將那些受害的人們遺忘的人。
The scene with Charles Bennett and the "chorus girls" was supposed to have taken place in a brothel, but the Hays Office would not allow it.
查爾斯·貝內特和舞蹈女孩的那個場景本該是發生在妓院的,但海斯辦公室(原美國電影協會)是不會同意的。
I told her that she had to choose her cellphone or her freedom, and she ran back to her tiny room in the brothel and locked the door.
我告訴她她必須選擇要手機還是要自由,于是她跑回自己在妓院的那間小屋并鎖上了門。
Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.
僅僅剛剛撥打那個雇主的電話,由于法律原因還未對其身份進行確認,她就意識到她正在給一家妓院打電話。
It would account for the same woman or sisters giving birth to the children as a result of the brothel.
這就解釋了深陷勾欄的同一個女人或同為姊妹的女人生下了這些孩子。
It seemed that the brothel had purchased Raya just a week earlier, after her own brother-in-law tricked her and trafficked her.
情況似乎是這樣的,一個星期前Raya剛被妓院買來,當時她遭自己姐夫欺騙給賣了。
Ah, of course. That brothel where we met, did you take it for a sept? Was that your virgin sister squirming in your lap?
啊,當然。我們見面的那家妓院,你找間房睡過了么?是不是那位在你膝上扭動純潔的姐姐啊?
Some women carried banners reading "Italy is not a brothel" , and said Mr Berlusconi had demeaned women with his recent sex scandals.
一些婦女手持些有“意大利不是一個惡棍”的條幅,她們說貝盧斯科尼先生因為最近的性丑聞激怒了婦女們。
While we are on the subject, I have also run a brothel. And I have been a male escort.
既然說到這個話題,我也打理過一個妓院,我也曾是個男妓。
A local law said no brothel or bar could be too close to a school. When one dive was found to have broken this rule, they moved the school.
地方法規定,學校附近不得有妓院和酒吧,然而,執法機關要是發現了違法的妓院酒吧之時,他們卻是讓學校搬走。
A BROTHEL madam, an ex-Black Panther, a teamster and a self-styled "Papa Smurf" all got together for a debate on Long Island.
一個妓院老媽子,一個前任黑豹黨成員,一個卡車駕駛員還有一個自稱是“藍精靈之父”的人聚在長島參加一場辯論。
Other credible covers include 'going abroad for a weekend' say you are going to a massage parlour or brothel abroad.
其他可靠的偽裝有:“周末出國”,說你去國外按摩院、妓院;
But while Shakespeare's orations and drama may have graced the theatre, it was also used as a bear pit, brothel and gambling house.
不過,劇院也許因為莎士比亞的公開演說和戲劇而熠熠生輝,但它同時也充當了觀熊場、妓院和賭場的角色。
The interview took place in a former brothel dating back to the 1950s.
采訪的地點是一所遠在1950年代曾是妓院的房子里。
The brothel's owner rubbed her with pineapple juice, which supposedly lightens the skin, and sold her virginity to a businessman.
妓院老板給她涂擦上鳳梨汁以使皮膚光亮,把她的童貞賣給了一位商人。
Payment of about $70 in debts to her brothel owner, she said.
付清欠妓院老板的70美金債務,她說。
First he put me in a brothel with Chinese customers. They taught me to use cocaine.
他先是把我送到中國客人的妓院,他們教我使用可卡因,他們說我會在工作中找到快樂。
Gang politics meant she was transferred to a rougher brothel in east London, where customers bit and beat her.
按照黑幫的意圖,她被轉移到倫敦東部的一家廉價妓院,在那里,客人們咬她打她。
Of course, due to the influence of the brothel literature, these woman images of the Yuan Opera are sometimes distorted and vulgarized .
當然,由于青樓文學的影響,元雜劇的部分婦女形象也有失真、庸俗的一面。
A woman at a bus station had befriended Srey Mom and handed her over to a brothel.
某個公交車站上一位女人和她接近,把她交給了一家妓院。
Hearing these words, the king was greatly impressed, the prostitute also decided to give up her brothel life.
聽了這番話,國王贊嘆不已,妓女從此也停止了賣笑生涯。
They were not buried, but instead were cast into a sewer that ran beneath a brothel.
他們并未被埋葬,而是被拋棄于一所妓院下面的下水道里。
Syphilis was almost eradicated from China in the 1950s with a sweeping programme of antibiotics and brothel shutdowns.
在50年代的中國,通過大規模的使用抗生素和妓院的關閉,梅毒幾乎被根除。
Rich brothel-keepers fed a construction boom that spawned thousands of elegant villas in Soho and Marylebone to house up-market courtesans.
有錢的妓院老板們興起了建設熱潮,在Soho和Marylebone,數千套高檔別墅被用來金屋藏嬌,藏的當然是高檔妓女。
Only in Mumbai could a young female writer safely attend a late-night birthday party hosted by a madam in a brothel.
只有在孟買,一個年輕的女作家才可以安全的在深夜參加由妓院老鴇主辦的生日聚會。
Within weeks, she arrived in Holland -- only to find herself a prisoner in a brothel, sold by her friend to a Lithuanian gang.
過了幾個星期,她就來到了荷蘭。卻發現自己成了一個妓院里的囚犯。
But 20 years ago, encouraging sex workers and brothel owners to introduce condoms was no simple matter.
但在20年前,要鼓動性工作者和妓院老板使用避孕套并不是一件易事。
The other picture was discovered on the wall of a brothel at Pompeii.
另一張圖片被發現于龐貝城中一家妓院的墻上。
No matter from respectable families or brothel, women themselves were part of Confucian society and were the product of Confucian culture.
無論是閨秀也好,名妓也罷,她們本身就是儒家社會的一份子,也是儒家文化的產物。