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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

        • I plan to hire a wet nurse to take care of the baby, which is less than a month old.
          我打算雇一位乳娘来照顾还没满月的小宝宝。
        • Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.
          作为奶妈,女人是无与伦比的。
        • 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。
        • 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。”
        • 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 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。
        • 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。
        • He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
          他是奶妈奶大的。
        • 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。
        • I tried to find him a wet nurse.
          我曾试过给他找个好保姆。