英和和英

名詞

joy division (複数形 joy divisions)

1. (historical, WWII) A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves of young Jewish women.
   • 1955, Ka-tzetnik 135633, Moshe M. Kohn, transl., House of Dolls, New York: Simon & Schuster, OCLC 1412272, page 174:

     Here they kept close watch over the girls' bodies to keep them whole, undamaged. Here, when a girl was flogged she was not permitted to return to the Joy Division. She was immediately tossed on the van and—Off to the crematorium!

   • 2013, Jacqui A. Miller, “The Pawnbroker”, in Carlos E. Cortés, editor, Multicultural America, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 1686:

     As the girl, in the present moment, beseeches him to “look,” in a flashback Sol is forced by the commandant to look as various members of the “joy division,” and then specifically his wife, service SS guards.

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派生語

• Joy plot