harlot
harlot 英 [ˈhɑ:lət] 美 [ˈhɑrlət]
n. 娼妓
名词复数:harlots
- Harlot is an old-fashioned word for a prostitute — a woman who has sex for money.
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- n. 娼妓
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1. To me the word harlot seems like something my grandmother might have called one or two of the girls I spent a little time with during my university years.
对于我来说，harlot这个词像是我祖母会用来称呼大学时跟我厮混过的那么一两个姑娘的。
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2. Harsh, but it is a fate far better than the crippling sexual diseases you no doubt contracted as a result of your harlot's escapades.
现实是很残酷，但总比放荡纵欲的糜烂生活终有一天带给你一身脏病要好得多吧。
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3. From there harlot’s meaning moved through “jester” and “manservant” before it became feminized where its meaning stuck unto my grandmother’s day.
的意思又变为“小丑”和“男仆”，直到最终被女性化，意思停留在了我祖母那个年代。
- harlot (n.) c. 1200 (late 12c. in surnames), "vagabond, man of no fixed occupation, idle rogue," from Old French herlot, arlot "vagabond, tramp, vagrant; rascal, scoundrel," with cognates in Old Provençal (arlot), Old Spanish (arlote), and Italian (arlotto), but of unknown origin. Usually male in Middle English and Old French. Used in positive as well as pejorative senses by Chaucer; applied in Middle English to jesters, buffoons, jugglers, later to actors. Secondary sense of "prostitute, unchaste woman" probably had developed by 14c., certainly by early 15c., but this was reinforced by its use euphemistically for "strumpet, whore" in 16c. English translations of the Bible. The word may be Germanic, with an original sense of "camp follower," if the first element is hari "army," as some suspect.
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