handmaiden 的定义
- a person or thing that serves a useful but subordinate purposelogic is the handmaid of philosophy
- archaic a female servant or attendant
handmaiden 近义词
等同于 maid
更多handmaiden例句
- Corporate America and its ideologues embraced government intervention as long as Washington served as its handmaiden.
- It was humiliating for the GOP majority to play the handmaiden to minority leader Nancy Pelosi.
- One handmaiden, however, cannot wait to find a suitable male and finds an empty stairwell to take matters into her own hands.
- In the field of politics, fear has been the handmaiden of power since the beginning of time.
- Or, the story of Abraham's affair with Hagar, his handmaiden?
- She had been their mother's handmaiden before their mother's marriage.
- Of what use to labour, to struggle, to deny myself, for an art to which I can never be more than the humblest handmaiden?
- Remember me to your elderly and amiable handmaiden, whose beaten biscuit I recall with such felicity.
- Chloe, the black handmaiden who stood at the door, latch in hand, had time to grow tired of waiting before her mistress spoke.