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wench

释义：

wench

wench，英语单词，主要用作名词、不及物动词，作名词时译为“少妇；乡下姑娘”，作不及物动词时译为“通奸”。

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英语

词源

名词派生自中古英语 wench、wenche (“女婴；女孩（尤指未婚的）；少妇；女奴隶；女仆；亲爱的；妾；妓女”) [以及其他形式]，[1]略自中古英语 wenchel (“女孩；女仆；小孩”)，源自古英语 wenċel、winċel (“小孩；侍者；奴隶”)，[2][3]源自原始日耳曼语 *wankilą，源自原始日耳曼语 *wankijaną (“摇，曳”)。英语词与古高地德语 wenken (“摇曳；投降”)、wankōn (“踉跄”)同源。

动词[4]和形容词派生自名词。

发音

  • IPA(帮助)：/wɛntʃ/
  • （澳洲）音频
  • 韵部：-ɛntʃ

名词

wench（复数 wenches）

  1. (古旧, 现已方言或幽默, 可能冒犯) 少女，女孩
    Jane played the role of a wench in an Elizabethan comedy.
    Jane在一出伊丽莎白时代的喜剧里扮演少女。
    • c. 1580，Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney]，“[The Second Booke] Chapter 14”，出自Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio编， The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia]，London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie，出版年份1590, OCLC 801077108; republished in Albert Feuillerat编， The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I)，Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:University Press，1912, OCLC 318419127, 页号238:
      I, like a tẽder harted wench, skriked out for feare of the divell.
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    • Template:RQ:Shakespeare All's Well
    • 1611， The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version)，London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Samuel 17:17, column 1:
      Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz ſtayed by En-rogel: (for they might not be ſeene to come into the citie) and a wench went and told them: and they went, and tolde king Dauid.
      那时，约拿单和亚希玛斯在隐罗结那里等候，不敢进城，恐怕被人看见。有一个使女出来，将这话告诉他们，他们就去报信给大卫王。
    • Template:RQ:Homer Chapman Iliads
    • Template:RQ:Swift Gulliver
    • Template:RQ:Black Sabina Zembra
    • 1986年11月15日，Beastie Boys; Rick Rubin （作词作曲），“Rhymin & Stealin”，出自 Licensed to Ill, 演唱：the Beastie Boys:
      We got wenches on the benches, and bitties with titties / Housing all girlies from city to city
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    1. (尤指) 地位低微的女孩
      • 1871，W[illiam] Barry，“The Barony of Threeneheila within Drum”，出自 Moorland and Stream. With Notes and Prose Idyls on Shooting and Trout Fishing，London:Tinsley Brothers, […], OCLC 557029821, 页号25:
        The woman is a brazen, hard-looking wench, a female pedlar, who hawks needles, thread, cheap looking-glasses, pious pictures, almanacs, hair-pins, ballads, of the most humble pattern, through the country.
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  2. (古旧或方言) （对女性的爱称，尤对妻子、女儿或女朋友） 亲爱的
    • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Henry 8
    • Template:RQ:Browning Aurora Leigh
  3. (古旧) 女仆
    • Template:RQ:Tyndale NT
    • Template:RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 3
    • 1881，Henry Inman，“A Legend of Pawnee Rock; or How the life of an old trapper was saved by a bird”，出自 Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail‎[1]，Kansas City, Missouri:Ramsey, Millett & Hudson, 页号89,91:
      [...] working for Colonel Boone a the time--and two more men whose names I disremember now, and a nigger wench we had for a cook. [...] So I got onto one of the ponies and led the others down to the spring near camp to water them while the wench was a getting breakfast, and some o' the rest o' the outfit was a fixin the saddles and greasing the wagon.
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  4. (古旧) 荡妇；情人，情妇
    近义词： 参见Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:mistress
    • Template:RQ:Chaucer Canterbury
    • Template:RQ:Marlowe Jew of Malta
    • 1702，Mat[thew] Prior，“To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale.”，出自 Poems on Several Occasions，2nd edition，London:Printed for Jacob Tonson, […]，出版年份1709, OCLC 1103119849, 页号103:
      Whilſt Men have theſe Ambitious Fancies, / And wanton Wenches read Romances, / Our Sex will—What? out with it: Lye: / And Theirs in equal Strains reply.
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      Originally printed for Jacob Tonson as an anonymous, double-sided pamphlet.
    • Template:RQ:Spectator
  5. (古旧) 妓女
  6. (美国, 古旧或历史) 女黑人（尤指奴隶）
    近义词： (过时，文雅，现已冒犯) negress
    • 1776–1787，Carmelita Robertson; Elizabeth E. D. Eve， Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776–87 (Curatorial Report; no. 91)，Halifax, N.S.:History Section, Nova Scotia Museum, Department of Tourism & Culture，出版年份2000, →ISBN:
      Nancy Basset, 28, likely wench, mulatto / Proved to be free. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate. // Patience Jackson, 23, very likely wench, mulatto / Says she was born free Rhode Island. / Certified free as per General Birch Certificate.
      （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
    • Template:RQ:Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • 1866年3月2日，“Sharp Wench”，出自 The Appeal，St. Paul; Minneapolis, Minn.:Parker, Burgett & Hardy, OCLC 10153837, 页号3; quoted in Hannah Rosen, “Notes”，出自 Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South (Gender and American Culture)，Chapel Hill, N.C.:University of North Carolina Press，2009, →ISBN, footnote 186, 页号282:
      A colored girl [...] was fined ten dollars in the Freedman's Court yesterday, for being drunk and disorderly. Not having the money in her possession, she requested that a guard be sent with her to her residence to procure it. The Provost allowed a guard to wait on the wench, who, as soon as she found herself inside of her own door, locked it, and left the poor guard outside without the money. He returned to court without either the wench or fine.
      （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
    • 2014，Kirsten Pullen，“Light Egyptian: Lena Horne and the Representation of Black Femininity”，出自 Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood，New Brunswick, N.J.:Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, 页号106–107:
      So complete was this illusion, claims [Eric] Lott, that many audience members, including Mark Twain's mother, believed they were seeing authentic, biologically black performers on New York stages. Of course, wench characters seem to especially test the bounds of authentic performance. Played by men, wenches were nonetheless read by audiences as beautiful women: [...] [E]xtant photographs and engravings of wench performers do not always represent them as blacked up, [...] In antebellum minstrel shows, wench songs were most often sung about mulatto women rather than by them.
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衍生词汇

  • wenchdom
  • wenchful
  • wenchhood
  • wenchish
  • wenchless
  • wenchlike
  • wenchly
  • wenchy

派生语汇

  • 苏里南汤加语： wenke

动词

wench（第三人称单数简单现在时 wenches，现在分词 wenching，一般过去时及过去分词 wenched）

  1. (不及物, 古旧, 现已幽默) 嫖娼；沉溺女色
    • 1638，Thomas Nabbes， The Bride, a Comedie. […]，London:Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson] for Laurence Blaikelocke […]，出版年份1640, OCLC 1126534284; republished in Playes, Maskes, Epigrams, Elegies, and Epithalamiums. […]，London:Printed by I. Dawson, […]，1639, OCLC 316388290, Act II, scene iv:
      This is ſure ſome hide-bound ſtudent, that proportions his expence by his penſion; and wencheth at Tottenham court for ſtewed prunes and cheeſcakes.
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    • 1647，William Lilly，“Another Briefe Description of the Shapes and Formes of the Planets”，出自 Christian Astrology Modestly Treated of in Three Books. […]，London:Printed by Tho[mas] Brudenell for John Partridge and Humph[rey] Blunden, […], OCLC 39806250, 页号85:
      He [a man under the influence of the planet Mars] hath a marke or ſcar in his face, is broad-ſhouldered, a ſturdy ſtrong body, being bold and proud, given to mocke, ſcorne, quarrell, drinke, game and wench: which you may eaſily know by the Signe he is in; if in the houſe of ♀ he wencheth, if in ☿s he ſteals, [...]
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    • 1767，[Hugh Kelly]，“Saturday, May 1”，出自 The Babler. Containing a Careful Selection from those Entertaining and Interesting Essays, which have Given the Public so much Satisfaction under that Title during a Course of Four Years, in Owen’s Weekly Chronicle，卷号II，期号LXVI，London:Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, […]; L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R. Collins, […]; and J. Harrison, […], OCLC 723144896:
      In ſhort, Ned has drank, wenched, fought, and beggared himſelf, through an exalted ſolicitude for the general emolument, and is now cloſe pent up in one of our priſons, out of a pure and diſintereſted regard for the welfare of ſociety.
      （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
    • 1807 March，[Charles] Dibdin，“Dibdin’s Tour. [Letter 1 … Introductory.]”，出自 The Polyanthos，卷号IV，Boston, Mass.:Published by J[oseph] T[inker] Buckingham, […], OCLC 79264500, footnote, 页号247:
      I know a clergyman who, having enjoyed for several years the world's good opinion, was turned off, through a ridiculous pique, by a young nobleman to whom he was preceptor. [...] He drank, wenched, and was so complete a gambler, that, had he kept his old situation much longer, he would have ruined the principles of his pupil.
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    • Template:RQ:Scott Fortunes of Nigel
    • 1972，Philip K[indred] Dick，章号1，出自 We Can Build You (DAW SF Books; no. 14)，New York, N.Y.:DAW Books, OCLC 1320726; republished London:HarperVoyager, HarperCollins，2008, →ISBN, 页号11:
      Bundy's reasons for leaving the Cape are obscure. He drinks, but that doesn't dim his powers. He wenches. But so do we all.
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    • 1979 October，Roald Dahl，章号1，出自 My Uncle Oswald，London:Michael Joseph, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.:Penguin Books，2011, →ISBN:
      Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.
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变位

wench的变位
不定式 (to) wench
现在时 过去式
第一人称单数 wench wenched
第二人称单数 wench, wenchest1 wenched, wenchedst1
第三人称单数 wenchs, wencheth1 wenched
复数 wench
虚拟语气 wench
祈使语气 wench —
分词 wenching wenched

1古旧或弃用。

衍生词汇

  • wencher

参考资料

  1. ↑ “wench(e, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ↑ “wenchel, n.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  3. ↑ “wench, n.”, OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1926; “wench, n.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
  4. ↑ “wench, v.”, OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1926; “wench, v.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

异序词

  • chewn