brothel
美 [ˈbrɑθ(ə)l]
英 [ˈbrɒθ(ə)l] 
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复数:brothels
英汉双解
1. | 妓院a house where people pay to have sex with prostitutes |
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例句
The possibility of rejection by her mother was almost as frightening as the idea of finishing her life in the brothel.
被她母亲拒绝的可能性几乎与在妓院终其一生的想法一样恐怖。
News spread, many wealthy Chinese population set Maichang the garden yard (commonly known as the brothel), open celebrations.
消息传开,许多有钱的中国人群集卖唱的园子里(妓院的俗称),公开欢庆。
I once saw a suited and affluent man almost punching his way out of a brothel.
我曾经看到过一个富态西装男几乎是一路冲出妓院。
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.
事件一开始,我所知道的仅仅是在加尔各答红灯区某座妓院的三楼房间里囚禁着一位年幼的少女。
One of the girls who was sold into the sex trade told CNN that before she could read she was working in a brothel.
一个女孩告诉CNN记者,她还不认字的时候就被卖到了妓院提供性服务。
Brothel was an indecent existence in the eyes of a common lady and brothel girls were all wanton women as well.
在寻常女子眼里,青楼是不正经的存在,青楼女子更是淫娃荡妇。
Following a close study of the plot, experts have decided it was the site of an ancient brothel and terrible infanticides took place there.
随着这一事件的密切研究,专家已确认那里曾是一家古老的妓院,那里曾发生过可怕的杀婴行为。
"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,而在妓院里工作的话接客数量会让你觉得很划算,”格雷先生说。
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.
我本希望这篇专栏就此打住,但就在几天后,SreyMom和她妈妈吵了一架,又逃回了波贝的那家妓院。
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,她与众多印度同龄人一样,已经到了命运的转折关头,因为她的家人似乎在准备把她出售给妓院。
(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.
(关于她家19世纪的老房子,过去是个妓院)我晚上进去的时候,希望看到楼梯上站着一个透明的风尘女。
I defy anyone to walk out of a brothel or to walk out of an orphanage leaving those people behind.
我蔑视任何走出妓院,走出孤儿院就将那些受害的人们遗忘的人。
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.
查尔斯·贝内特和舞蹈女孩的那个场景本该是发生在妓院的,但海斯办公室(原美国电影协会)是不会同意的。
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.
我告诉她她必须选择要手机还是要自由,于是她跑回自己在妓院的那间小屋并锁上了门。
Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.
仅仅刚刚拨打那个雇主的电话,由于法律原因还未对其身份进行确认,她就意识到她正在给一家妓院打电话。
It would account for the same woman or sisters giving birth to the children as a result of the brothel.
这就解释了深陷勾栏的同一个女人或同为姊妹的女人生下了这些孩子。
It seemed that the brothel had purchased Raya just a week earlier, after her own brother-in-law tricked her and trafficked her.
情况似乎是这样的,一个星期前Raya刚被妓院买来,当时她遭自己姐夫欺骗给卖了。
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,当然。我们见面的那家妓院,你找间房睡过了么?是不是那位在你膝上扭动纯洁的姐姐啊?
Some women carried banners reading "Italy is not a brothel" , and said Mr Berlusconi had demeaned women with his recent sex scandals.
一些妇女手持些有“意大利不是一个恶棍”的条幅,她们说贝卢斯科尼先生因为最近的性丑闻激怒了妇女们。
While we are on the subject, I have also run a brothel. And I have been a male escort.
既然说到这个话题,我也打理过一个妓院,我也曾是个男妓。
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.
地方法规定,学校附近不得有妓院和酒吧,然而,执法机关要是发现了违法的妓院酒吧之时,他们却是让学校搬走。
A BROTHEL madam, an ex-Black Panther, a teamster and a self-styled "Papa Smurf" all got together for a debate on Long Island.
一个妓院老妈子,一个前任黑豹党成员,一个卡车驾驶员还有一个自称是“蓝精灵之父”的人聚在长岛参加一场辩论。
Other credible covers include 'going abroad for a weekend' say you are going to a massage parlour or brothel abroad.
其他可靠的伪装有:“周末出国”,说你去国外按摩院、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.
不过,剧院也许因为莎士比亚的公开演说和戏剧而熠熠生辉,但它同时也充当了观熊场、妓院和赌场的角色。
The interview took place in a former brothel dating back to the 1950s.
采访的地点是一所远在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.
妓院老板给她涂擦上凤梨汁以使皮肤光亮,把她的童贞卖给了一位商人。
Payment of about $70 in debts to her brothel owner, she said.
付清欠妓院老板的70美金债务,她说。
First he put me in a brothel with Chinese customers. They taught me to use cocaine.
他先是把我送到中国客人的妓院,他们教我使用可卡因,他们说我会在工作中找到快乐。
Gang politics meant she was transferred to a rougher brothel in east London, where customers bit and beat her.
按照黑帮的意图,她被转移到伦敦东部的一家廉价妓院,在那里,客人们咬她打她。
Of course, due to the influence of the brothel literature, these woman images of the Yuan Opera are sometimes distorted and vulgarized .
当然,由于青楼文学的影响,元杂剧的部分妇女形象也有失真、庸俗的一面。
A woman at a bus station had befriended Srey Mom and handed her over to a brothel.
某个公交车站上一位女人和她接近,把她交给了一家妓院。
Hearing these words, the king was greatly impressed, the prostitute also decided to give up her brothel life.
听了这番话,国王赞叹不已,妓女从此也停止了卖笑生涯。
They were not buried, but instead were cast into a sewer that ran beneath a brothel.
他们并未被埋葬,而是被抛弃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年代的中国,通过大规模的使用抗生素和妓院的关闭,梅毒几乎被根除。
Rich brothel-keepers fed a construction boom that spawned thousands of elegant villas in Soho and Marylebone to house up-market courtesans.
有钱的妓院老板们兴起了建设热潮,在Soho和Marylebone,数千套高档别墅被用来金屋藏娇,藏的当然是高档妓女。
Only in Mumbai could a young female writer safely attend a late-night birthday party hosted by a madam in a brothel.
只有在孟买,一个年轻的女作家才可以安全的在深夜参加由妓院老鸨主办的生日聚会。
Within weeks, she arrived in Holland -- only to find herself a prisoner in a brothel, sold by her friend to a Lithuanian gang.
过了几个星期,她就来到了荷兰。却发现自己成了一个妓院里的囚犯。
But 20 years ago, encouraging sex workers and brothel owners to introduce condoms was no simple matter.
但在20年前,要鼓动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.
另一张图片被发现于庞贝城中一家妓院的墙上。
No matter from respectable families or brothel, women themselves were part of Confucian society and were the product of Confucian culture.
无论是闺秀也好,名妓也罢,她们本身就是儒家社会的一份子,也是儒家文化的产物。