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pimp

/pɪmp/

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noun

皮条客，拉皮条的。

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

Examples :

"The police arrested the man for acting as a pimp, managing several women and profiting from their prostitution. "

警察逮捕了那个男人，因为他当皮条客，管理着几个卖淫的女人，并从中获利。

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noun

情场高手，泡妞高手.

A man who can easily attract women.

Examples :

"He's such a pimp; girls are always calling him. "

他真是个情场高手，总有女生给他打电话。

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verb

拉皮条，卖淫。

To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

Examples :

"The shady nightclub owner was pimping underage girls, exploiting them for profit. "

那个黑心夜总会老板在拉皮条，逼迫未成年少女卖淫，从中牟利。

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verb

拉皮条，逼良为娼

To prostitute someone.

Examples :

"The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone."

那个口若悬河、戴着粗金手镯的高个子男人声称他能逼任何人卖淫。

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verb

改装炫酷，炫改

To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out).

Examples :

"He decided to pimp his old bicycle with colorful lights, a loud horn, and fuzzy dice hanging from the handlebars. "

他决定把他的旧自行车炫改一番，装上彩灯、一个响亮的大喇叭，还在车把上挂了毛茸茸的骰子。

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verb

考问，刁难。

To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).

Examples :

"The attending physician pimped the intern about the patient's unusual symptoms, asking progressively more difficult questions until the intern was stumped. "

主治医生就病人不寻常的症状考问那个实习医生，提出的问题越来越难，直到把实习医生问倒了。

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verb

拉皮条，吹捧。

To promote, to tout.

Examples :

"I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers."

我得给你看看这个超棒的网站，你可以在这儿吹捧你的博客，吸引更多读者。

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verb

拉皮条，怂恿。

To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.

Examples :

"I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas."

我哄了她两千美元，结果她把整个巴哈马的住宿费都付了。

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adjective

时髦的，潇洒的。

Excellent, fashionable, stylish

Examples :

""Her new outfit was really pimp; everyone complimented her on how stylish she looked." "

她新买的衣服真时髦，大家都夸她看起来很潇洒。

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numeral

五 (Wu)

Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting

Examples :

"The farmer counted his sheep, finding a total of five in the field. "

农民数了他的羊，发现田里总共有“pimp”（五只）。

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