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nursling

/nurs-ling/US // ˈnɜrs lɪŋ //UK // (ˈnɜːslɪŋ) //

育苗,护理人员,护理,孕产妇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an infant, child, or young animal being nursed or being cared for by a nurse.
    • : any person or thing under fostering care, influences, or conditions.

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Examples

  • If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling.

  • But if either of them showed the faintest sign of fatigue, the mother dived quietly and lifted the tired nursling to the surface.

  • Nettie, who was not much given to caresses, came up and put sudden arms round her special nursling.

  • The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.

  • The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment.