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
- 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。 - I tried to find him a wet nurse.
我曾试过给他找个好保姆。 - 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。 - He also asks that the families go to the hospital together while the wet nurse gets a checkup.
他还要求奶妈体检时雇主一家人也一块儿去。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Engels once compared taxes to the wet nurse of the government.
恩格斯曾把赋税比作政府的乳娘。 - '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。 - Then there's the problem of what to do with a wet nurse's own child, since many of the women move in with their employers and, sometimes, they aren't allowed to bring their own babies to work.
还有一个问题就是，这些奶妈自己的孩子怎么办，因为很多奶妈都跟雇主一起生活，有时她们被禁止带自己的孩子去雇主家。