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 housemaid ['hausmeid]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 女佣



    housemaid
    [ noun ]
    a female domestic
    <noun.person>


    Housemaid \House"maid`\, n.
    A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care
    of the rooms.

    {Housemaid's knee} (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to
    an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan;
    -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls
    who work upon their knees.

    1. In Stevenson's version, the housemaid is glimpsed only briefly, weeping loudly at the sight of Dr. Jekyll's soliciter, who has been summoned to the house to investigate possible foul play by Mr. Hyde.
    2. Avril imposed the state of siege on Jan. 20, one day after the killing of army Col. Andre Neptune, his wife and a housemaid by unidentified gunmen.
    3. Mrs. Curren is outraged that her housemaid accepts with placid fatalism the way in which her son and his schoolmate have been radicalized by struggle in the townships.
    4. The housemaid explains that she has brought Bheki with her, because, "he will get into trouble" in the townships, where the schools have been set afire and rebellion is "burning with a low flame."
    5. In this case, she ranges from the subservient housemaid to the angry, fiery female, with many steps in between.
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