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

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