maid

英 [meɪd]

美 [meɪd]

n.  女仆; 侍女; (旅馆里的)女服务员; 少女; 年轻姑娘; 未婚年轻女子

复数：maids　

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Collins.2 / BNC.5166 / COCA.6044

牛津词典

noun

• 女仆；侍女；（旅馆里的）女服务员
  a female servant in a house or hotel
  1. There is a maid to do the housework.
     有个女仆做家务事。
• 少女；年轻姑娘；未婚年轻女子
  a young woman who is not married

柯林斯词典

• See also:A maid brought me breakfast at half past eight.old maid

英英释义

noun

• an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
  Synonym:maiden
• a female domestic
  Synonym:maidservanthousemaidamah

双语例句

• My father already thinks I'm an old maid.
  我老爸已经觉得我是个老女孩了。
• He overheard his wife talk with the maid.
  他无意中听到妻子对女佣说的话。
• The maid looked at him, a nervous smile on her face
  女服务员看着他，脸上带着一丝局促不安的微笑。
• The maid, wang mah, came in with a bowl of bird's-nest gruel for him.
  王妈捧着燕窝粥进来，吴荪甫也没觉得。
• And he's hired a maid?
  他却雇了一个女佣？
• Now therefore behold in me the murderer of a youth and a maid.
  因此，现在你在我身上瞧得见一个谋杀这对青年和少女的凶手。
• The maid, casting black looks, hurried out.
  女仆怒气冲冲地瞪了几眼，匆匆地出去了。
• I fired the maid last week.
  我上周把女佣开除了。
• Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
  亚历克丝认为自己是个老姑娘的想法还太早了点。
• I sent him a long fax, saying I didn't need a maid.
  我给他发了一份很长的传真，说我不需要女仆。