中英互译
hooker
英 /ˈhʊkə(r)/美 /ˈhʊkər/
基本释义
- n.妓女;渔船
- n.(Hooker)人名;(英)胡克
复数hookers
双语例句
- The Union soldiers were led by "Fighting" Joe Hooker.同盟军由“战士”乔·胡克领导。
- In 1845 Joe Hooker was 31 years old and had been serving in the army for 11 years.让我们来仔细探究一下:1845年,31岁的乔·胡克尔已经有了11年的军龄。
- The most intense combat of the battle took place on May 3, with Hooker now defending against Lee's attack.这场战役中最激烈的战斗发生在5月3日,此时Hooker将军成了防守方,抵御Lee将军的攻势。
相关短语
- coat/picture hook挂衣钩/挂画的钩子
- fish hook鱼钩
- Joseph Hooker约瑟夫·胡克;植物学家胡克
- William Jackson Hooker威廉·杰克逊·胡克
- Hooker Telescope胡克望远镜
- John Lee Hooker约翰;表演者
- Hooker Valley track胡克谷步道;谷步道
同义词
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英英释义
- n.United States general in the Union Army who was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee (1814-1879)
- n.English theologian (1554-1600)
- n.a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
- n.a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers)
- n.(rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot
词源
- hooker妓女来自hook,钩,比喻用法。
- hooker引人上钩者,妓女关于其由来,在美国流传着一种说法,认为它源出美国南北战争时期的联邦军将领Joseph Hooker(1814 - 1879)。他手下士兵一度军纪比较涣散,休假时常和妓女鬼混。据某位美国总统之孙Charles Francis Adams,Jr.所述,在这位将军的兵团驻扎华盛顿市期间,他的司令部简直成了“一个有自尊心的男人不愿涉足,一个正经女人不能去的场所,那是酒吧和妓院的混合体。”(…a place where no self-respecting man liked to go, and no decent woman could go. It was a combination of barroom and brothel.)尽管他也曾下令管束部下和营妓,并禁止部下进入红灯区,但足人们却把他的大名Hooker和妓女联系起来,把妓女,尤其是营妓,戏称为hooker,把他的司令部所在的区语带双关地称作Hooker's Division。其实,hooker 一词在南北战争以前早已作为俚语用以指“妓女”。John Russell Bartlett所编的Dictionary of Americanisms(1859年版)就把hooker释义为“妓女”。按该词典,hooker源出纽约市曼哈顿一个名叫Corlear's Hook(简称the Hook)的码头区,在19世纪初这里是妓女麇集活动的地方。还有另一种解释说,之所以称娼妓为hookker是因为他们总是主动地挽住顾客的手臂,引他们上钩(hook)。由此看来,hooker并非源自Hooker将军的姓氏,但拼写和事情的巧合可能确实对hooker一词的流行起了一定作用。