broth·el
noun/ˈbrɒθl/
/ˈbrɑːθl/
(also bordello especially in North American English)
- a house where people go to have sex in exchange for money
人们去那里做爱以换取金钱的房子 - He used to visit a brothel in Paris.
他以前常到巴黎的一家妓院。 - She ran a brothel in Soho.
她在索霍区开了一家妓院。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + brothel- go to
- visit
- run
- …
- keeper
- owner
- in a/the brothel
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally brothel-house): from late Middle English brothel ‘worthless man, prostitute’, related to Old English brēothan ‘degenerate, deteriorate’. - He used to visit a brothel in Paris.