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。 - 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。 - Some parents searching for a wet nurse say they're desperate for an alternative to possibly tainted milk powder.
一些寻找奶妈的人说，他们迫切地想找到可能受到污染的奶粉的替代品。 - 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。 - 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。 - He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
他是奶妈奶大的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Acting like a wet nurse to them low-down, poor white trash instead of being here eating her supper.
象护士一样为那些下等的可怜穷人去接生，而不是在这里吃晚餐。