handmaid / ˈhændˌmeɪd /
⚽高中词汇婢女女仆女佣女佣人
handmaid 的定义
n. 名词 noun- something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.
- a female servant or attendant.
更多handmaid例句
- The Handmaid only finds liberation when she steals out of her room to bed the chauffeur.
- Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
- But you found me giving a lesson in Armenian to this handmaid?
- Geometry is desirable, not as a noble intellectual exercise, but as a handmaid to natural philosophy.
- As time went on she came to entertain the clearest views as to science being the handmaid of religion.
- Friendship was given us by nature as the handmaid of virtues and not as the companion of our vices.