英语词汇“of easy virtue”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P6. of easy virtue: possessing low moral standards or little integrity; esp. (usually of a woman) sexually promiscuous, engaging in prostitution. Cf. sense 2c.lady of easy virtue, woman of easy virtue: see the first element. [Compare French de moyenne vertu (1732), de petite vertu (1909), both with reference to women or girls. No exact formal parallel of the English phrase is attested in French.]

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1763 E. Thompson Temple of Venus i. 10 Dames of easy Virtue stray to please, The foulest passions 'mongst the fairest Trees.

1774 Monthly Rev. June 457 A witty Lady once sarcastically styled him, ‘a Gentleman of easy virtue’.

1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java vii. 342 The common dancing girls of the country..are called rông'geng, and are generally of easy virtue.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 126 The tax will then fall with its full weight upon men of integrity, while the millionaire of ‘easy virtue’ may well-nigh escape it altogether.

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 78/1 Moth, a female of easy virtue.

1970 N.Y. Mag. 14 Dec. 86/3 Bucatini alla puttanesca (named for the sisterhood of easy virtue).

2006 A. O'Neill London: after Fashion iv. 106 Hogarth's depiction of the downfall of a man of easy virtue in The Rake's Progress.

单词	of easy virtue
释义	> as lemmas of easy virtue P6. of easy virtue: possessing low moral standards or little integrity; esp. (usually of a woman) sexually promiscuous, engaging in prostitution. Cf. sense 2c.lady of easy virtue, woman of easy virtue: see the first element. [Compare French de moyenne vertu (1732), de petite vertu (1909), both with reference to women or girls. No exact formal parallel of the English phrase is attested in French.] ΚΠ 1763 E. Thompson Temple of Venus i. 10 Dames of easy Virtue stray to please, The foulest passions 'mongst the fairest Trees. 1774 Monthly Rev. June 457 A witty Lady once sarcastically styled him, ‘a Gentleman of easy virtue’. 1817 T. S. Raffles Hist. Java vii. 342 The common dancing girls of the country..are called rông'geng, and are generally of easy virtue. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 126 The tax will then fall with its full weight upon men of integrity, while the millionaire of ‘easy virtue’ may well-nigh escape it altogether. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 78/1 Moth, a female of easy virtue. 1970 N.Y. Mag. 14 Dec. 86/3 Bucatini alla puttanesca (named for the sisterhood of easy virtue). 2006 A. O'Neill London: after Fashion iv. 106 Hogarth's depiction of the downfall of a man of easy virtue in The Rake's Progress. extracted from virtuen. < as lemmas
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