whore

• vi. 卖淫，娼妓
• n. 娼妓，淫妇

来自古英语hore,妓女，来自PIE*ka,爱，喜欢，渴望，词源同cherish,charity,caress,委婉语。比较urine.

1. a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

whore

whore: [OE] A whore is etymologically a ‘lover’. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo- European base *qār-, which also produced Latin cārus ‘dear’ (source of English caress and charity), Old Irish caraim ‘I love’, and Latvian kārs ‘randy, greedy’. It gave prehistoric Germanic *khōrōn, which evolved into German hure, Dutch hoer, Swedish hora, Danish hore, and English whore (whose wh- spelling first appeared in the 16th century).
=> caress, charity

whore (n.)

1530s spelling alteration (see wh-) of Middle English hore, from Old English hore "prostitute, harlot," from Proto-Germanic *horaz (fem. *horon-) "one who desires" (cognates: Old Norse hora "adulteress," Danish hore, Swedish hora, Dutch hoer, Old High German huora "whore;" in Gothic only in the masc. hors "adulterer, fornicator," also as a verb, horinon "commit adultery"), from PIE *ka- "to like, desire," a base that has produced words in other languages for "lover" (cognates: Latin carus "dear;" Old Irish cara "friend;" Old Persian kama "desire;" Sanskrit Kama, name of the Hindu god of love, kamah "love, desire," the first element in Kama Sutra).

Whore itself is perhaps a Germanic euphemism for a word that has not survived. The Old English vowel naturally would have yielded *hoor, which is the pronunciation in some dialects; it might have shifted by influence of Middle English homonym hore "physical filth, slime," also "moral corruption, sin," from Old English horh. The wh- form became current 16c. A general term of abuse for an unchaste or lewd woman (without regard to money) from at least c. 1200. Of male prostitutes from 1630s. Whore of Babylon is from Rev. xvii:1, 5, etc. In Middle English with occasional plural forms horen, heoranna.

The word, with its derivatives, is now avoided polite speech; its survival in literature, so as it survives, is due to the fact that it is a favorite word with Shakspere (who uses it, with its derivatives, 99 times) and is common in the authorized English version of the Bible ... though the American revisers recommended the substitution of harlot as less gross .... [Century Dictionary]

Some equivalent words in other languages also derive from sources not originally pejorative, such as Bohemian nevestka, diminutive of nevesta "bride;" Dutch deern, German dirne originally "girl, lass, wench;" also perhaps Old French pute, perhaps literally "girl," fem. of Vulgar Latin *puttus (but perhaps rather from Latin putidus "stinking;" see poontang). Welsh putain "whore" is from French, probably via Middle English. Among other languages, Greek porne "prostitute" is related to pernemi "sell," with an original notion probably of a female slave sold for prostitution; Latin meretrix is literally "one who earns wages" (source of Irish mertrech, Old English miltestre "whore, prostitute").

The vulgar Roman word was scortum, literally "skin, hide." Another term was lupa, literally "she-wolf" (preserved in Spanish loba, Italian lupa, French louve; see wolf (n.)). And of course there was prostituta, literally "placed in front," thus "publicly exposed," from the fem. past participle of prostituere (see prostitute (n.)). Another Old Norse term was skækja, which yielded Danish skøge, Swedish sköka; probably from Middle Low German schoke, which is perhaps from schode "foreskin of a horse's penis," perhaps with the sense of "skin" (compare Latin scortum) or perhaps via an intermediary sense of "vagina." Spanish ramera, Portuguese ramiera are from fem. form of ramero "young bird of prey," literally "little branch," from ramo "branch." Breton gast is cognate with Welsh gast "bitch," of uncertain origin. Compare also strumpet, harlot.

Old Church Slavonic ljubodejica is from ljuby dejati "fornicate," a compound from ljuby "love" + dejati "put, perform." Russian bljad "whore" derives from Old Church Slavonic bladinica, from bladu "fornication." Polish nierządnica is literally "disorderly woman." Sanskrit vecya is a derivation of veca- "house, dwelling," especially "house of ill-repute, brothel." Another term, pumccali, means literally "one who runs after men." Avestan jahika is literally "woman," but only of evil creatures; another term is kunairi, from pejorative prefix ku- + nairi "woman."

whore (v.)

"to have to do with whores," 1580s, from whore (n.). Related: Whored; whoring.

I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world.

我不能选择死, 我是这个冰冷世界的娼妇.

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They want drinking and whore, just to prove how macho they be.

他们经常酗酒嫖妓, 就是为了证明他们多有男子气.

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Hey madame you've a whore here who's cutting out!

嘿,妈咪;你的一位[小姐]在那儿杀价喔!

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You defend the man who called my mother a whore and me a bastard.

你替一个叫我妈妈为贱货叫我为杂种的男人辩护.

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Even if she were a virtueless woman , or a shameless whore, she would be Queen nevertheless.

但纵然没有任何德性,纵然不过是个娼妓,那时候, 她也仍旧是王后.

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A whore is never too tired to open her legs.

为了宽他我自己也说不上想不想去,看到卡尔又同她调起情来,我才决定去.

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So the message is, I should treat every woman like a whore?

你要传达的讯息就是我要像对待妓女一样对待每个女人?

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At least the whore pays the flesh that's haggled for.

妓女至少还在讨价还价后支付她们的肉体.

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Then my whore second wife throws me out.

接着,我那妓女一样的第二个妻子把我扔了出来.

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You are dressed up like a whore , it's terrible.

你打扮得妖里妖气的, 真吓人.

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Besides, he has a whore in Rome who calls herself a princess.

此外, 他在罗马还勾搭上了一个娼妓,她管自己叫公主.

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We all know you are the son of a terreous whore.

我们都知道你是黑人妓女的儿子.

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You just run to your little whore , but then you're getting married!

你可以回去找你的荡妇但你还是要结婚的!

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Othello. What, not a whore?

奥瑟罗什麽! 你不是一个娼妇 吗 ?

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The woman's a whore, and there's an end.

那个女人是个淫妇, 这就是结论.

辞典例句

Brad , for 14 years, I've been a whore for the advertising industry.

布兰德, 我在广告业出卖自己已经有十四个年头了.

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A whore made for the devil.

一个为魔鬼制造的妓女.

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She was a whore all the way through – and that was her virtue!

她是一个地地道道的婊子,这正是她的优点.

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Zang filthy technetium agency cypress, technetium fall Ralei , Mi is liar, she is whore.

肮賍锝社桧, 堕落锝亽蘱,祢是骗子, 她是婊子.

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You accept judgment from a judge who sells himself like the worst whore in the streets.

你向与街上最糟的男妓一样出卖自己的法官接受判决.

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Treat yourself to a good dinner, a good cigar and a good whore?

你有上好的晚餐, 好的雪茄和漂亮的女人?

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But his attitudes haven't changed much since the good old Professional Whore days.

尽管如此,自过去美好的职业妓女时代以来,男人的态度并没有多大改变.

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Have you ever seen a whore and liar like CNN?

各位见没见过象CNN一样的妓女和说谎者?

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I cannot believe you are still with that whore.

我真不敢相信你还跟那个婊子在一起.

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She has no morals! She's really a whore!

她没有道德标准! 她真是个水性杨花的女人!

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I know the little whore would take us right to them.

我就知道这小野鸡会给我们带路.

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You are my fucking whore. Hold you down while I choke you.

你是我该死的妓女,我将你压住及掐住你.

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