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
- 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。” - 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。 - This influence comes from stories told by his grandmother, his wet nurse and from the war of 1812 and his exiling to the southern Russia.
外祖母、奶娘的故事、1812年战争、南俄流放、亲朋的相继死亡和十二月党人的悲剧都极大地影响着普希金对死亡的思考。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。