英英釋義:
Prostitution means having sex with people in exchange for money.
例句:
①Conspiring to promote prostitution. How do you plead?
協同賣淫罪 你打算怎麼辯護?----《摩登家庭》
②Some turned to prostitution in order to survive.
有些人為了生存而開始賣身。
③He was arrested on charges of controlling prostitutes.
他因為被指控操縱娼妓而被捕。
拓展:
prostitute n. 賣淫者;妓女;男妓
英英釋義:
If you say that you are over the hump, you mean that you no longer have a problem or difficulty that was stopping you being successful or happy.
例句:
We're basically over the hump. We've got an economy that's likely to grow next year even more than it did in 1992.
我們基本上渡過了難關。我們明年的經濟增長速度甚至可能會超過1992年。
拓展:
這個短語的記憶比較形象,因為「hump」本身表示「動物背部的隆肉」,所以「get over the hump」可以理解為「跨越困難部分」