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wet nurse

英 [ˈwet nɜːs]

美 [ˈwet nɜːrs]

n.  (通常指旧时的)奶妈,乳母

医学

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

        • According to an unwritten rule in old families, grandparents were expected to pay for the grandson's wet nurse.
          依照旧家庭的不成文法,孙子的乳母应当由祖父母出钱雇的。
        • 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。
        • Napoleon, the Prophet Mohammed and I have one thing in common. We were all breast-fed by a wet nurse.
          我、拿破仑和默罕默德有一个共同点我们都是由奶妈喂大的。
        • '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。
        • 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。
        • A housemaid, especially a wet nurse, in India and the far east.
          阿妈印度和远东的女佣,特别是奶妈。
        • Stannis furrowed his brow. "I was told that the wet nurse was this man craster's wife."
          史坦尼斯额头皱了起来。“据我所知这奶妈是卡斯特的妻子。”
        • The wet nurse went over to investigate. When she reached the other boat, the first thing she saw was a pool of blood!
          奶妈于是过去查个究竟。当她来到那只船时,首先看到的竟是一滩鲜血。