英语词汇“wet nurse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wet nurse

noun chiefly historical

A woman employed to suckle another woman’s child.The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives....

From the beginning there was a practical obstacle to the proselytising: the hospital soon ran out of Protestant wet nurses.
The women went away, too, to work as wet nurses in Paris and elsewhere.

verb

1 (wet-nurse) [with object] Act as a wet nurse to.They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said....

Chapman, the literary magazine that the redoubtable Joy Hendry has wet-nursed from infancy, is celebrating its 100th issue after more than 30 years of continuous publication.
As an infant, he was farmed out to be wet-nursed, and although his mother would come to visit occasionally, he spent the first five or six years of his life in the working-class family of Eugenia and Milziade Baldi and their two sons.

1.1 informal Look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant: I got tired of having to wet-nurse performers...

Yet, the reality is that many directors tend to do just that - especially if they're stressed out newbies who have better things to do (they believe) than to wet-nurse a crybaby actor.
I get annoyed when people force their hand-holding, wet-nursing systems down my throat.
Blackstone grumbled to himself; ‘Demoted to wet-nursing aspiring pilots.’

单词	wet nurse
释义	wet nurse noun chiefly historical A woman employed to suckle another woman’s child.The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.... From the beginning there was a practical obstacle to the proselytising: the hospital soon ran out of Protestant wet nurses. The women went away, too, to work as wet nurses in Paris and elsewhere. verb 1 (wet-nurse) [with object] Act as a wet nurse to.They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.... Chapman, the literary magazine that the redoubtable Joy Hendry has wet-nursed from infancy, is celebrating its 100th issue after more than 30 years of continuous publication. As an infant, he was farmed out to be wet-nursed, and although his mother would come to visit occasionally, he spent the first five or six years of his life in the working-class family of Eugenia and Milziade Baldi and their two sons. 1.1 informal Look after (someone) as though they were a helpless infant: I got tired of having to wet-nurse performers... Yet, the reality is that many directors tend to do just that - especially if they're stressed out newbies who have better things to do (they believe) than to wet-nurse a crybaby actor. I get annoyed when people force their hand-holding, wet-nursing systems down my throat. Blackstone grumbled to himself; ‘Demoted to wet-nursing aspiring pilots.’
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