- 1賣淫（較中性的說法是「性工作」）
Prostitution is the work of selling sex: a person has sex, or sexual acts, with someone in exchange for money. The word names the work, not the person. The person is a prostitute, though many people who do this work would rather be called a sex worker, because that sounds like a job and not a stain on someone. You will hear prostitution in news, law, and serious talk; it is a cold, formal word, not a playground word. In some countries the work is against the law; in others it is allowed but tightly watched. People also stretch it in an way, saying an artist or a writer has gone into prostitution when they mean the person sold their values for money. That is a figure of speech, not the real job. Though actually, even the real job is messy: what counts as prostitution can shift with local law and with how people feel about money and sex.
組成From Late Latin prostitutio. In English it is prostitute + -ion, the ending that names an action or a state.
同家族的字
- prostitutethe person, or the verb for selling sex; prostitution is that word plus -ion
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
prostitutionnoun/ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/
- 1
Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
- His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.
- Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution.
- 2
Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
- 3
Debasement for profit or impure motives.
- The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。