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mae

/mey/US // meɪ //

玛,麦,玛伊,梅

Definitions

  1. 1

    Scot.

    • : more.

Examples

  • As with AIG, the government essentially bailed out the financial system by bailing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

  • Later, Mae complained to reporters about the “inexperience of the director,” but somehow found time to stroke her fan base.

  • At the opening-night party, Mart Crowley saw Mae West sitting alone, except for the company of two musclemen bodyguards.

  • Artist Carrie Mae Weems knows how to get the art world to pay attention to race, class, and gender.

  • For thirty years, Carrie Mae Weems has made the art world confront issues of race, class, and gender.

  • Mae was at the tiller guiding the steering gear to fix the vessel in its course, on the smooth, blue waters.

  • "That's a delicate question," replied Helen, for both Mae and Eugenia were too busy to pay heed to nonsense.

  • Dusk made the woods almost dark, and lest they should stray too far inland Mae was to give signals on her police whistle.

  • "Some time A. M.," said Mae, hiding her concern with a brave show of indifference.

  • It did not take long to row back to the sand bar, where Mae had already been towed off, out into the welcome deep water.