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

• 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。
• 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。”
• 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。
• I tried to find him a wet nurse.
  我曾试过给他找个好保姆。
• Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.
  作为奶妈，女人是无与伦比的。
• He admits some might view hiring a wet nurse as exploitation, but he disagrees.'They need higher pay and a better job while I need them to look after my baby.
  他承认有的人会认为雇奶妈是剥削，但他不同意这种看法。
• '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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。