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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。