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

• 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。
• 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。”
• My wet nurse said the same thing, Will, Royce replied. Never believe anything you hear at a womans tit.
  威尔，我奶妈也说过这话，罗伊斯回答：千万别相信你在女人怀里听到的东西。
• He was breast-fed by a wet nurse.
  他是奶妈奶大的。
• 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。
• 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。
• When Hung-chien first came back to china, the house was spacious and ah ch'ou had a wet nurse to look after him, so that ah ch'ou did not become a nuisance.
  鸿渐初回国，家里房子大，阿丑有奶妈领着，所以还不甚碍眼讨厌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。