单词	housemother
释义	housemother /ˈhaʊsˌmʌðə / noun A woman in charge of and living in a boarding school house or children’s home.In those days, the cottages now used for respite care for disabled children were run as individual homes where husband-and-wife teams, known as housefathers and housemothers, looked after abandoned or orphaned children.... Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice. It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog.
随便看	pay its (or one's) way payline pay lip service to payload payloader paymaster Paymaster General Paymaster-Generalship paymastership payment payment protection payment term paymistress Payne's grey pay night paynim paynimry pay off payoff line payoff man payoff matrix payoff table payola pay one's compliments pay one's devoirs

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