prostituting
- v.卖淫;出卖肉体;滥用才能;糟蹋自己
- prostitute的现在分词
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N-COUNT 妓女；娼妓
A prostitute is a person, usually a woman, who has sex with men in exchange for money.He admitted last week he paid for sex with a prostitute.
他承认上个星期嫖娼了。
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VERB （使）沦为娼妓
If someone prostitutes a woman or if a woman prostitutes herself, she has sex or is made to have sex with men for money....this terrible story of famine and a woman who's forced to prostitute herself in order to get food.
这个关于饥荒和一个女人为了糊口被迫沦为娼妓的悲惨故事
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VERB （为名利）出卖（才能）
If you prostitute yourself or your talents, you do work for money or to be famous, rather than because you think it is good work or the right thing to do.Higher education is being forced to prostitute itself to market forces.
高等教育被迫向市场需求妥协。
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Many felt he was prostituting his talents by writing Hollywood scripts .
许多人觉得他给好莱坞写剧本是滥用自己的才华。
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Why do I want to go around and spend hours of my time prostituting myself trying to get people to buy my shares ?
为什么我要四处跑，花大量时间像妓女一样兜售自己，努力让别人购买我的股票？
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My gut reaction was that the " Chief " was selling himself and prostituting his culture .
我下意识的反应是，那个首领在出卖他自己，亵渎他的文化。
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Poets prostituting their talent by writing jingles for advertisements .
为广告写顺口溜而折辱才华的诗人。
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I will set my face against that man and his family and will cut off from their people both him and all who follow him in prostituting themselves to Molech .
我就要向那人和他的家板着脸，把他和一切随从他变节（原文作∶行邪淫）的、就是变节去服事摩洛的人、都从他的族人中剪除掉。