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。
• The wet nurse, said lady melisandre. "your grace gave her freedom of the castle."
  “那个奶妈，”梅丽珊卓夫人说道。“陛下大人准许她在城堡内自由起居。”
• 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。
• Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.
  作为奶妈，女人是无与伦比的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He also asks that the families go to the hospital together while the wet nurse gets a checkup.
  他还要求奶妈体检时雇主一家人也一块儿去。