| 词汇 | housewife |
| 释义 | housewifeWord family nounhousefulhousinghouse arresthouseboathouseboyhousebreakerhousebreakinghouse callhousecoathousecrafthouseflyhouse guesthouseholdhouseholderhousekeeperhousekeepinghousemaidhousemanhouse martinhousemasterhouse musichouseparenthouse partyhouseroomhousetophouse-warminghousewifehousewiferyhousewifeshiphouseworkhousing estatehouseadjectivehouselesshouseyhouseboundhouse-to-househouse-trainedhousewifelyverbhouse-sit Occupations house·wife /ˈhaʊswaɪf/ ●●● W3 noun (plural housewives /-waɪvz/) [countableC] BOHOMEa married woman who works at home doing the cooking, cleaning etc, but does not have a job outside the house 家庭妇女，家庭主妇 SYN homemaker, → house husband Examples from the Corpus housewife• Is she to give up being a housewife, put the children in a day-care centre and take paid work?• But the addition of paid work to the housewife's activities does not mean that she is no longer a housewife.• She didn't want to take him back, she hated the idea, but she was a middle-aged housewife.• But are housewives happy with their lot?• And more than half the women interviewed hate the label housewife because it sounds so patronising.• She was an Ohio housewife with three kids when she got the idea to write a funny column for the local newspaper.• A warehouse foreman's wife says: I mind writing housewife on a form. |
| 随便看 |
|
时代网英语在线翻译词典收录了283110条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。