Faith Daniels, the distaff anchor of the"CBS Early Morning News, " was ready to jump ship last week, following in the footsteps of her former sidekick, Forrest Sawyer, who skipped town last September. “哥伦比亚广播公司早晨新闻”女主播丹尼尔斯,上周已决定跟随她的以前助手索耶(九月已离纽约)的脚步辞职。
The worker is pushing the distaff. 工人们正在推卷线杆。
distaff
[ noun ]
the sphere of work by women
<noun.state>
the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
<noun.artifact> [ adj ]
characteristic of or peculiar to a woman
<adj.all> female sensitiveness female suffrage
Distaff \Dis"taff\, n.; pl. {Distaffs}, rarely {Distaves}. [OE. distaf, dysestafe, AS. distaef; cf. LG. diesse the bunch of flax on a distaff, and E. dizen. See {Staff}.] 1. The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand.
I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. --Fairfax.
2. Used as a symbol of the holder of a distaff; hence, a woman; women, collectively.
His crown usurped, a distaff on the throne. --Dryden.
Some say the crozier, some say the distaff was too busy. --Howell.
Note: The plural is regular, but Distaves occurs in Beaumont & Fletcher.
{Descent by distaff}, descent on the mother's side.
{Distaff Day}, or {Distaff's Day}, the morrow of the Epiphany, that is, January 7, because working at the distaff was then resumed, after the Christmas festival; -- called also {Rock Day}, a distaff being called a rock. --Shipley.