accost如何读

英:[əˈkɒst]

美:[əˈkɔːst]

accost是什么意思

vt.

走过去跟…讲话

跟…搭讪

(乞丐等)上前向…乞讨

(妓女等)勾搭

vi.

贴近地面飞

<古>接界

邻接

交接

accost自然拼读

ac·cost

kawst

accost变形

第三人称单数:accosts

现在分词:accosting

过去式:accosted

过去分词:accosted

accost英英释义

transitive verb

to confront and speak first to, often aggressively.A man accosted me at the train station and asked me for money.A talkative woman accosted me at the party, and I couldn't get away.

to solicit (someone) sexually.She was accosted by a strange man as she was walking home.

accost词源中文解释

1570年代,“因任何原因并排或面对面地接近”,来自法语 accoster “靠近,并排移动”(古法语 acoster),源自拉丁语 accostare “靠近侧面”,由拉丁语 ad “到”(见 ad-)和 costa “肋骨,侧面”(见 coast(n.))的同化形式组成。现在通常指“接近并与之交谈”(1610年代)。也被用作妓女招揽顾客的动词(1812年)。相关: Accosted; accosting。

Infamous houses, he states, are in all parts of the metropolis, but most numerous in small streets, leading from public thoroughfares. "Some of them adjoin churches, chapels, and even the courts of law. There is one locality in which vicious women accost persons as they issue from the door of a chapel on the Sabbath. In another situation, the officiating clergyman while in the pulpit, is in a position to witness the proceedings in a contiguous brothel." [Michael Ryan, M.D., "Prostitution in London," 1839]
他说,臭名昭著的房屋遍布整个大都市,但最多的是在从公共通道通向的小街道上。 “其中一些与教堂、礼拜堂甚至法院相邻。有一个地方,邪恶的女人在安息日从教堂的门口拦住人们。在另一个地方,主持礼拜的牧师在讲坛上,可以看到相邻妓院的情况。” [迈克尔·瑞安(Michael Ryan),《伦敦的卖淫》(Prostitution in London),1839年]

accost词源英文解释

borrowed from Middle French accoster, going back to Old French, "to go alongside of, sail along the coast of, place (a vessel) beside another" (sʼacoster a "to take a place beside, draw near, support"), probably going back to Vulgar Latin *accostāre, from Latin ad- ad- + costa "rib, side" — more at coast >entry 1 Note: A common, polysemous verb in Anglo-French, though the English verb, which only begins to appear in the late 16th century, is apparently borrowed directly from Continental French. The sense "to approach and speak to" only appears in French in the early 17th century, about the same time that it appears in English.

The first known use of accost was in 1567

accost儿童词典英英释义

accountableadjective

responsible for giving an account (as of one's acts)

will be held accountable

capable of being accounted for : explainable

accostverb

to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way

accost 例句

1 Earn proves less magnetizing than the people he hangs with and the strangers who accost him, a constellation of cops, school principals, city-bus passengers, D.J.s, children, frenemies, inmates, stoners and bizarro celebrities.

2 A few furtive shapes darted into alleys at the sound of hoofbeats on the cobbles, but no one dared accost them.

3 Halfway to the podium, she is accosted by Bryan Cranston, who proceeds to snog her passionately for several seconds.

4 Mrs. B famously accosted Calvin Klein on the dance floor at the hip Studio 54 in New York— and begged him to sell to Browns.

5 Little regiments of children lurked by the doorways, apparently for the express purpose of accosting foreign missionaries.

6 There's a defining moment when Hill's lecturer finds himself frontally accosted by Felicity Montagu as his closeted spinster-admirer and rushes to answer a ringing telephone with a palpable sense of relief.

7 Others simply took it in stride — when aren’t you accosted in New York by strangers wanting to give you something? — and simply walked away, probably scratching their heads internally.

8 According to the report, Diamond was accosted by another man when he moved to intervene, and inadvertently stabbed the man in the process.

9 They saw him slouch forward after breakfast, and, like a mendicant, with outstretched accost a sailor.

他们看到他在早饭以后萎靡不振地走着,而且会像叫化子似地,向一个水手伸出手。

10 Once I disappeared, I wasn’t accosted the way they were.

11 Wielding a juice extractor, he accosts strangers with glasses of green goop, yammering about micronutrients to good ol’ boys and flashing his substantial gut in solidarity.

12 ‘I can’t bear that dreadful woman accosting me every time I happen to walk by.’

13 Don’t say no if you are accosted with this question at the Metropolitan Museum this weekend.

14 She was so famous that people would accost her on the street and ask for an autograph.

15 I was lonely in my room at night, where Netflix would accost me with the passive aggressive, "Are you still watching?"

16 “I don’t usually come out and accost the patients, sorry! It’s just that Hank told me about you and...and I can relate.”

17 I braced myself, but he didn’t accost me.

18 On Wednesday night, Brad Pitt was accosted at the glitzy premiere of "Maleficent," allegedly by the notorious red-carpet attacker Vitalii Sediuk.

19 They have been assigned to accost strangers and extract secrets from them.

他们被指派去与生疏人搭讪从并从他们那里套出奥秘。

20 A stranger accosted him on the bus.

一位陌生人在公共汽车上同他搭讪.

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