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midwife

/mid-wahyf/US // ˈmɪdˌwaɪf //UK // (ˈmɪdˌwaɪf) //

助产士,接生婆,接生员,助产师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural mid·wives [mid-wahyvz]. /ˈmɪdˌwaɪvz/.

    • : a person trained to assist women in childbirth.
    • : a person or thing that produces or aids in producing something new or different.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mid·wifed or mid·wived, mid·wif·ing or mid·wiv·ing.

    • : to assist in the birth of.
    • : to produce or aid in producing: to midwife a new generation of computers.

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Examples

  • You can define sex as being based on your body and whether the doctor or midwife said you were a boy or girl when you were born.

  • Watterdal holds weekly WhatsApp calls with Taliban officials, who, he says, have understood that in order for their communities to have midwives, women must be educated through twelfth grade.

  • Most others had their babies delivered by midwives and their fevers and wounds treated by family members or local healers.

  • What was remarkable, considering that this was a patriarchy, is that the most valued witnesses were the women who supervised the birth, the midwife and nurses.

  • Rhea had already given birth five times, and each time, Gaia attended her daughter as midwife.

  • The parents had chosen to give birth at home, with a certified professional midwife attending.

  • At the time of her arrival in 2011, many of the facilities in Liberia lacked even a single midwife, let alone trained OB/GYNs.

  • It means care with a mother-focused doctor or midwife, sometimes in a place other than a hospital.

  • Later on they came and said something else, but a midwife later told me the same [not to have more children].

  • Instead, he wound up being the midwife for the Soviet Union's demise.

  • In this case the midwife was afraid to go alone with her summoner, and begged that her husband might accompany her.

  • Conversely, when the midwife is rewarded with that which seems valuable it turns out worthless.

  • The quondam midwife, with tears in her eyes, looked at her, and blessed the moment she had done a generous act.

  • During this time,—from 1760 to 1775,—a Mrs. Peck was also known in the same town as an excellent midwife.

  • The midwife, without the ointment, is deceived like Thor by Utgard-Loki: nothing is as it appears to her.