wet nurse
英 [ˈwet nɜːs]
美 [ˈwet nɜːrs]
n. (通常指旧时的)奶妈,乳母
牛津词典
noun
- (通常指旧时的)奶妈,乳母
(usually in the past) a woman employed to feed another woman's baby with her own breast milk
柯林斯词典
- (旧时的)乳母,奶妈
In former times, awet nursewas a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- When the wet nurse came on board, it struggled and twisted.
当奶妈上船时,小猪正在挣扎扭动。 - He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
他是奶妈奶大的。 - 'I have to ask the husband face-to-face whether he will let his wife work as a wet nurse,'he says.
他说,我得当面问她们的老公,他愿不愿意让老婆去当奶妈。 - I tried to find him a wet nurse.
我曾试过给他找个好保姆。 - The wet nurse are the lactating women that are employed to feed other children with milk.
奶妈指受雇以乳汁喂养他人幼儿的哺乳期妇女,是传统女性谋生的重要职业营生之一。 - Only his wet nurse, who always used to say she would wait till he got married and had a son, then come look after him, was now ill and bedridden.
只有自己的乳母,从前常说等自己婚养了儿子来抱小孩子的,现在病得不能起床。 - My wet nurse said the same thing, Will, Royce replied. Never believe anything you hear at a womans tit.
威尔,我奶妈也说过这话,罗伊斯回答:千万别相信你在女人怀里听到的东西。 - The wet nurse, said lady melisandre. "your grace gave her freedom of the castle."
“那个奶妈,”梅丽珊卓夫人说道。“陛下大人准许她在城堡内自由起居。” - When Hung-chien first came back to china, the house was spacious and ah ch'ou had a wet nurse to look after him, so that ah ch'ou did not become a nuisance.
鸿渐初回国,家里房子大,阿丑有奶妈领着,所以还不甚碍眼讨厌。 - He admits some might view hiring a wet nurse as exploitation, but he disagrees.'They need higher pay and a better job while I need them to look after my baby.
他承认有的人会认为雇奶妈是剥削,但他不同意这种看法。