latrine
latrine 英 [ləˈtri:n] 美 [ləˈtrin]
n. 公共厕所
名词复数:latrines
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- n. 公共厕所
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1. "The latrine was of the same design as we use in third worldcountries -- a dry latrine -- and we formed the longest queue thismorning," UNICEF spokesman Benoit Melebeck said.
联合国儿童基金会发言人本诺依特? 马利拜科说：“这个公厕的设计与我们在第三世界国家使用的厕所差不多——是旱厕。
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2. Now go close to the latrine and put your face there.
现在走到茅坑那里把你的脸放在里面。
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3. An Indian latrine cleaner may get to vote, she says, but a Chinese one is far less likely to be viewed as completely subhuman.
她说，虽然一个印度公厕清洁工可能有机会去投票，但是一个中国公厕清洁工很少会被视为低等人类。
- latrine (n.) c. 1300, laterin "a privy," probably from Latin latrina, latrinum, a contraction of lavatrina "washbasin, washroom," from lavatus, past participle of lavare "to wash" (from PIE root *leue- "to wash") + -trina, suffix denoting "workplace." The word's reappearance in 1640s probably is a re-borrowing from French. In modern use, especially of a public privy of a camp, barracks, college, hospital, etc. Latrine rumor "baseless gossip" (of the kind that spreads in conversations in latrines) is military slang, first recorded 1918.
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