chaperon
chaperon 英 ['ʃæpərəʊn] 美 [ˈʃæpəˌron]
vt. 陪伴；护送 n. 年长女伴（陪伴未婚少女上社交场所的）；监护人（青年社交聚会时在场的） vi. 当女伴；当监护人
进行时:chaperoning 过去式:chaperoned 过去分词:chaperoned 第三人称单数:chaperons 名词复数:chaperons
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- vt. 陪伴；护送
- n. 年长女伴（陪伴未婚少女上社交场所的）；监护人（青年社交聚会时在场的）
- vi. 当女伴；当监护人
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1. Every girl needs a chaperon. Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent.
女孩子都需要一个年长的人陪伴，没有割风先生，珂赛特就不可能来。
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2. how I should like to be married before any of you; and then I would chaperon you about to all the balls.
我真巴不得比你们哪一个都先结婚！ 我就可以领着你们上各式各样的跳舞会去。
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3. Saudi Arabia is perhaps the most sex-segregated place on earth, a country where women can not leave the home without a male chaperon and are not allowed to drive.
沙特阿拉伯可能是世界上性别歧视最严重的国家。 没有男士监护，妇女不允许出门，也不能开车。
- chaperon (n.) "woman accompanying and guiding a younger, unmarried lady in public," 1720, from French chaperon "protector," especially "female companion to a young woman," earlier "head covering, hood" (c. 1400), from Old French chaperon "hood, cowl" (12c.), diminutive of chape "cape" (see cap (n.)). "... English writers often erroneously spell it chaperone, app. under the supposition that it requires a fem. termination" [OED]. The notion is of "covering" the socially vulnerable one. The word had been used in Middle English in the literal sense "hooded cloak."
- chaperon (v.) "act as a chaperon, attend (an unmarried girl or woman) in public," 1792, also chaperone, from chaperon (n.), or from French chaperonner, from the noun in French. Related: Chaperoned; chaperoning.
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