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nanny

/nan-ee/US // ˈnæn i //UK // (ˈnænɪ) //

保姆,保姆式,保姆级,保姆式的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural nan·nies.

    • : a person, usually with special training, employed to care for children in a household.

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Examples

  • Nothing cures a political problem like finding a new villain, and Abbott is busy setting up local officials as big-government nannies.

  • My partner and I cannot afford a nanny and were not comfortable sending our daughter back to day-care.

  • Her nanny, Ole Golly, tells her that writers take notes on people.

  • They’re more likely to have help from a nanny or the luxury to choose not to work.

  • To its childcare offerings, which include back-up care and enrollment through Bright Horizons, Citi in August added nanny placement services for employees.

  • UNO puts such an onus on smoking students that it ultimately seems like a bully, even more than a nanny.

  • The Louisiana university has turned into a nanny state, issuing a campus smoking ban of dubious legality.

  • Now, at the University of New Orleans, we have a “nanny university.”

  • She hired a full-time nanny only when it became unavoidable as the family made plans to travel to Australia for a royal tour.

  • He moved to Los Angeles straight out of college at 22, but the only steady work he found was as a male nanny.

  • "I should say Nanny Pulsifer would naturally lose weight," I answered.

  • With all the disadvantage of her little feet, Nanny managed best; where she could not walk, she jumped.

  • It is true that Nanny was a slattern, but only because she married into slavery.

  • But pity poor Nanny Coutts, who took her chains to bed with her.

  • But Nanny visited no one, and so Jess only knew her by hearsay.

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