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

• a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
  Synonym:wet-nursewetnurseamah

双语例句

• 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。
• Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.
  作为奶妈，女人是无与伦比的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• '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。
• He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
  他是奶妈奶大的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。