日積月累學口語:潑婦,醜女,無恥女子等的英語表達

1. Shrew
潑婦, 悍婦
A woman with a violent, scolding, or nagging temperament; a scold.
Many of you may have heard of, or read William Shakespear's "The Taming of the Shrew." The late Elizabeth Taylor and her two-time husband Richard Burton played the two leading roles in the film version.

2.A nag
責罵不休, 好嘮叨的人
Nagging is supposed to be a universal character of women; just don't tell my wife I mentioned it.

3.A harpy
兇惡的女人，潑婦
From Greek myth, a ravenous creature with a woman's head and trunk and a bird's wings and claws.

4.A vixen
潑婦
A vixen is a female fox. Although it usually means a woman with a sharp tongue(牙尖嘴利), it also means a woman regarded as quarrelsome, shrewish, or malicious. 好嘮叨或壞脾氣或壞心眼的女人. In some instances it also means an extremely sexy and sexually active woman.

5.A hag
醜老太婆, 母夜叉
An old woman considered ugly or frightful.

6.A gorgon
蛇發女怪,奇醜無比的女, 醜陋的或令人厭惡的女人
You will have to be pretty ugly to be called a gorgon. In Greek mythology, there were these three ugly sisters--Stheno and Euryale, their immortal sister Medusa--with snakes as hairs. They were so frightful that taking one look at her would turn you into stone. Medulsa was slain by the mythical Greek hero Perseus by using his polished shield as a shield to look for the gorgon.

7.A Delilah
奸詐陰險的狐狸精,蛇蠍美人.
A voluptuous and treacherous woman; temptress
Origin
In the Old Testament, Delilah is seductress sent by Philistines to find out where the Isrealite Samson got his superhuman strenth from, and then to deprived him of it. The story is too long to be repeated here. Search the Internet for "Samson and Delilah" or "參孫和大利拉."
pic04(Old 1949 movie. Saw it when it was shown in Hong Kong in the mid-1950s).

8.A bitch
惡毒的女人
An insulting word for someone, especially a woman, who is rude or cruel. (MacMillan)
A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing. (AHD)
The word bitch is generally used by people for a woman who is mean or haughty. Use of such a word is considered offensive. A woman who has coarse etiquettes is also termed 'bitch'.