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wet nurse

奶妈,乳母,湿婆,奶妈咪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a woman hired to suckle another's infant.

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Examples

  • If one feels overwhelmed, others serve as a buttress, helping her with childcare and breastfeeding, and sometimes even stepping in as wet nurses.

  • But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.

  • Consider Nurse-Family Partnership, one of the best examples of evidence in action.

  • Fidel jumped out and hopped into the ocean without getting wet.

  • At the hospital, I was told to wait, and was given some tea by a nurse.

  • I learn by the third day to tell the nurse privately to make mine mostly orange juice.

  • There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.

  • He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

  • And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.

  • Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

  • Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!