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taskmistress

/task-mis-tris, tahsk-/US // ˈtæskˌmɪs trɪs, ˈtɑsk- //

女任务员,女任务执行人,女任务者,女教师

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
    • : a woman who supervises others' work rigorously.

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Examples

  • She looked up at Chiswick appealingly but saw only a stern taskmistress.

  • But already some conception that we were under a hard taskmistress was dawning upon us.

  • For one blessed three-quarters of an hour before I finished the taskmistress was away.

  • Aphrodite is a hard taskmistress, and the mysterious bond of beauty which chains Helen to her cannot be broken.

  • Then our taskmistress appeared just as the floor was finished; she had forgotten the store room, it was locked up and not cleaned.