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