handmaidens

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n.  女用人; 侍女; 根基; 基础
handmaiden的复数

柯林斯词典

• 侍女;女仆
  Ahandmaidenis a female servant.
• N-COUNT 起服务作用的东西;辅助;支持
  If one thing is thehandmaiden ofanother, the first thing helps the second or makes it possible.
  1. The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.
     人们担心的是科学会成为工业的仆人。

双语例句

• Many doctors still treat nurses as their handmaidens instead of as qualified professionals in their own right.
  许多医生仍把护士当作女仆，而不认为她们有权被看作是合格的专职人员。
• When they're discovered, Cleopatra is dead, and her handmaidens are dying.
  当她们被发现时，克利奥帕特拉已经死亡。她的两位女仆也快不行了。
• Cleopatra committed suicide and the handmaidens committed suicide.
  克利奥帕特拉自杀了，她的女仆自杀了。
• The queen decoy gambit was devised by Captain panaka, who oversaw the training of Queen Amidala and her handmaidens.
  女王替身计划由帕纳卡队长提出，并且由他监督了阿米达拉女王及其侍女的训练。
• Any of Odin's handmaidens who conducted the souls of the slain to Valhalla. Assistant manager Steve Clarke says that Chelsea will have the same squad for the visit of Reading on Boxing Day as travelled to Wigan.
  瓦尔基里奥丁的女仆，她引导阵亡者的灵魂到瓦尔哈拉殿堂助理教练克拉克说切尔西对雷丁会采用和打维甘一样的阵容。
• Men were not considered lazy and women were not seen as their oppressed handmaidens.
  那时女人不会认为男人很懒，而男人也不会视女人为自己的仆人。