wet nurse
英 [ˈwet nɜːs]
美 [ˈwet nɜːrs]
n. (通常指旧时的)奶妈，乳母
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
双语例句
- 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。 - He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
他是奶妈奶大的。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - '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。 - The wet nurse are the lactating women that are employed to feed other children with milk.
奶妈指受雇以乳汁喂养他人幼儿的哺乳期妇女，是传统女性谋生的重要职业营生之一。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。