brothel
n. 妓院
n.
妓院；
变形
复数：brothels
英英释义
brothel[ 'brɔθəl ]
n.a building where prostitutes are available
同义词：whorehousebordellobagniohouse of prostitutionhouse of ill reputebawdyhousecathousesporting house
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
She works in a brothel in Brighton.
她在布赖顿的一家妓院工作。
She turned, and walked into a brothel.
她转了个弯，走进了一家妓院。
The politician stepped down after he was caught in a brothel.
政客在妓院被抓后,因而下台。
权威例句
Women brothel workers and occupational health risksHigh risk of HIV in non-brothel based female sex workers in India
The broth in my brother's brothel: morpho-orthographic segmentation in visual word recognition.
Violence and Legalized Brothel Prostitution in Nevada Examining Safety, Risk, and Prostitution Policy
HIV/AIDS risk among brothel-based female sex workers in China: Assessing the terms, content, and knowledge of sex work
'Superstar' and 'model brothel': developing and evaluating a condom promotion program for sex establishments in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Sexually transmitted infections among brothel-based sex workers in bangladesh: high prevalence of asymptomatic infection
Low HIV and high STD among commercial sex workers in a brothel in Bangladesh: scope for prevention of larger epidemic
Sex-trafficking, Violence, Negotiating Skill, and HIV Infection in Brothel-based Sex Workers of Eastern India, Adjoining Nepal, Bhut...
HIV-1 seroconversion in a prospective study of female sex workers in northern Thailand: continued high incidence among brothel-based...
brothel
brothel: [14] Originally, brothel was a general term of abuse for any worthless or despised person (John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis 1393, writes: ‘Quoth Achab then, there is one, a brothel, which Micheas hight [who is called Micheas]’); it was a derivative of the Old English adjective brothen ‘ruined, degenerate’, which was originally the past participle of the verb brēothan ‘deteriorate’ (possibly a relative of brēotan ‘break’, which may be connected with brittle).In the late 15th century we have the first evidence of its being applied specifically to a ‘prostitute’. Thence came the compound brothel-house, and by the late 16th century this had been abbreviated to brothel in its current sense.
brothel (n.)
"bawdy house," 1590s, shortened from brothel-house, from brothel "prostitute" (late 15c.), earlier "vile, worthless person" of either sex (14c.), from Old English broðen past participle of breoðan "deteriorate, go to ruin," from Proto-Germanic *breuthan "to be broken up," related to *breutan "to break" (see brittle). In 16c. brothel-house was confused with unrelated bordel (see bordello) and the word shifted meaning from a person to a place.
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