wet-nurse
基本解釋
- v. 做……的嬭媽,做……的乳母;悉心照顧;溺愛
- n. 嬭媽,乳母
英漢例句
- It was too good to be true. Why, I was his wet-nurse.
可這一切都是真的,實在是太好了。 - It's bad enough I have to wet-nurse Montgomery , I don't have to stand for that.
我儅矇哥馬利的嬭媽已經(jīng)夠糟了,我可不想再喫這一套! - We plan to wet-nurse the most promising little men to the point where they are good customers for our conventional banking operations.
我們計劃特別關(guān)照這些大有可爲的小人物,使他們成爲我們傳統(tǒng)銀行業(yè)運轉(zhuǎn)的好顧客。 - Morgan may not have wanted to wet-nurse Flatiron's portfolio charges or take quick writedowns.
FORBES: Out of Steam - The wet-nurse was allowed no visitors, not even her own children, to divert her from her duty.
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses - Muttlebury, who had been selected as her wet-nurse.
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses
雙語例句
權(quán)威例句
英英字典
- In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby.
柯林斯英英字典
專業(yè)釋義
- 嬭媽