housewife
n. 家庭主妇
n.
家庭主妇；家庭妇女；
变形
复数：housewives
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]家庭主妇 a woman who works at home for her family, cleaning etc., one who does not work outside the home
英英释义
housewife[ 'hauswaif ]
n.a wife who manages a household while her husband earns the family income
同义词：homemakerlady of the housewoman of the house
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
形容词+～
bad housewife不善于当主妇
orderly housewife有条理的主妇
～+介词
housewife of experience有经验的主妇
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
She typifies the bored housewife.
她是那种百无聊赖的家庭主妇的典型。
Many women chose to be a housewife after marriage.
许多妇女选择了在婚后当家庭主妇。
权威例句
HousewifeThe Unproductive Housewife: Her Evolution in Nineteenth-Century Economic Thought
Asthma and contact urticaria caused by rice in a housewife
Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century
The Intra Family Allocation of Time: The Value of the Housewife's Time
Hired as a Caregiver, Demanded as a Housewife Becoming a Migrant Domestic Worker in Turkey
What do I do with him 24 hours a day? Changes in the housewife role after retirement
[Case of meningitis due to Leptospira pomona (or swineherd's disease) in a housewife]
Comparison of the obesity risk and related factors in employed and unemployed (housewife) premenopausal urban women
Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife. By Robin M. LeBlanc. University of California Press, 1999. 243 pp...
housewife (n.)
early 13c., husewif, "woman, usually married, in charge of a family or household" (compare husebonde; see husband), from huse "house" (see house (n.)) + wif "woman" (see wife). Also see hussy. Related: Housewifely.
1. I hated the label 'housewife'.
我不喜欢“家庭主妇”这个称谓。
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2. Sometimes being a mother and a housewife felt like a thankless task.
做母亲和家庭主妇有时使人觉得好像是个受累不讨好的差使。
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3. Married at nineteen, she was a traditional housewife and mother of four children.
她19岁就结婚了，是个传统的家庭主妇和4个孩子的母亲。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
4. The implication in his article is that being a housewife is greatly inferior to every other occupation.
他那篇文章的含意是，当家庭主妇远远不如所有其他职业。
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5. She was a housewife of experience.
她是一个有经验的家庭主妇。
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6. Joanna is easy going and acts like a lovely housewife.
乔安娜很随和，表现得像个可爱的家庭主妇。
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7. I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
我有太多的幻想，不想当家庭主妇。我自己本身就是个幻想。
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8. When breakfast was over, the housewife told the King to wash up the dishes.
早餐后，主妇叫国王把盘子洗干净。
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9. In the past, women served as housewife while men were usually the breadwinner.
在过去，女性通常是家庭主妇，男性通常是养家糊口的人。
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10. My mother is a housewife whose time are employed in taking care of the family and doing house work.
我的母亲是一位家庭主妇，她的时间都用在照顾家人和做家务上。
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11. Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.
许多关于厨房设计的现代想法可以追溯到另一个美国人——克里斯汀·弗雷德里克，她致力于提高家庭主妇的效率。
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12. Henric Ibsen, author of the play "A Doll's House", in which a pretty, helpless housewife abandons her husband and children to seek a more serious life, would surely have approved.
《玩偶之家》的作者亨利•易卜生肯定会赞同这一观点。在这部戏剧中，一位美丽无助的家庭主妇抛弃了丈夫和孩子，去追求更认真的生活。
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13. Even a clever housewife cannotcook a meal without rice.
巧妇难为无米之炊。
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14. You're a housewife, aren't you?
你是家庭主妇吧？
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15. She was a typical housewife.
她是一名典型的家庭妇女。
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16. The housewife plied us with cakes.
主妇再三让我们吃蛋糕。
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17. Housewife: Hello, Acme Plumbing?
家庭主妇：喂，Acme水暖部吗？
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18. That the housewife should add an egg.
告诉家庭主妇应该加一个蛋。
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19. I think my mother is a good housewife.
我觉得我妈妈是一个非常棒的家庭主妇。
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20. No，she is a housewife.
没有。她是家庭主妇。
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21. Is she a housewife?
他是一个家庭妇女吗？
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22. Only the title Housewife, looked questionable.
只有那个“家庭主妇”，看起来是个问题。
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23. The housewife pounded the dried bread into crumbs.
这位主妇把干面包捣成碎屑。
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24. As a housewife, she has to do almost all the housework.
作为家庭主妇，她几乎做了全部家务。
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25. My father was a shoemaker, and my mother was a housewife.
我父亲是个鞋匠，母亲是家庭主妇。
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26. It would be much harder if I was a housewife in the country.
在这个国家，如果我是家庭主妇，那日子就更艰难了。
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27. Mrs Wrigley, a housewife, added: "His vocabulary is amazing.
瑞格里夫人，家庭主妇，补充说道："他的词汇量惊人。
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28. Me! A housewife and a grandmother - who never went to college.
我！一位家庭主妇和祖母——一位从未上过大学的人。
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29. This time around, she's a housewife and mother. And she's worried.
然而这次(危机来临的时候)，她成为了一个十分担忧的家庭主妇和母亲。
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30. This time around, she's a housewife and mother. And she's worried.
然而这次(危机来临的时候)，她成为了一个十分担忧的家庭主妇和母亲。
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