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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.
  作为奶妈，女人是无与伦比的。
• 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, said lady melisandre. "your grace gave her freedom of the castle."
  “那个奶妈，”梅丽珊卓夫人说道。“陛下大人准许她在城堡内自由起居。”
• 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。