harem
harem 英 [ˈhɑ:ri:m] 美 [ˈhærəm]
n. 为一个雄性动物所控制的许多雌性动物；闺房里的妻妾群；闺房（伊斯兰教教徒的）
名词复数:harems
- A harem is the part of the house in traditional Muslim society reserved for women — either wives, servants, or concubines.
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- n. 为一个雄性动物所控制的许多雌性动物；闺房里的妻妾群；闺房（伊斯兰教教徒的）
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1. A long, plump, pillowed sofa stretched the length of one wall, and upon it four women were disposed like odalisques in a harem.
一张松软带靠垫的长沙发沿墙放着，四个女人像穆斯林闺房中的妇女一样散坐在上面。
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2. Not only is there no ’family’ or ’harem’ organization; neither is there a ’troop’ organization - that is to say, no particular chimpanzees keep permanently together.
它们不仅没有’家庭’或’妻妾’组织，也没有’团队’组织，也就是说黑猩猩没有固定地生活在一起。
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3. This feeling was especially heightened for my poor father after having three daughters — his “harem,” as people referred to us.
父亲在有了三个女儿——人们称呼我们为他的“后宫”—— 后，格外加重了这种感觉。
- harem (n.) 1630s, "part of a Middle Eastern house reserved for women," from Turkish harem, from Arabic haram "wives and concubines," originally "women's quarters," literally "something forbidden or kept safe," from root of harama "he guarded, forbade." From 1784 in English as "wives, female relatives and female slaves in a Middle Eastern household." The harem-skirt was introduced in fashion 1911. Harem pants attested from 1921; fashionable c. 1944. An earlier word for them (in a Middle Eastern/Balkan context) was bag-trousers (1849).
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