mammy
英 [ˈmæmi]
美 [ˈmæmi]
n. 妈; 妈妈; 黑人保姆(旧时美国南方各州对照看白人孩子的黑人女子的贬称)
复数:mammies
BNC.28380 / COCA.26273
牛津词典
noun
- 妈;妈妈
mother - 黑人保姆(旧时美国南方各州对照看白人孩子的黑人女子的贬称)
an offensive word used in the past in the southern states of the US for a black woman who cared for a white family's children
柯林斯词典
- (英国某些地区的方言)妈妈
In some dialects of English,mammyis used to mean mother.
英英释义
noun
- informal terms for a mother
- an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.
双语例句
- You ain't holding that against old Mammy, is you?
你不会因为那个而对一个老奶妈生我气吧? - My mammy used to love this song when I was just a tiny young girl.
当我还是个小姑娘时,我妈妈就老爱哼唱这首歌。 - It was this refusal of food that worried Ellen and mammy more than anything else.
就是这种拒不吃饭的态度使母亲和嬷嬷急得不行。 - Take him into the bedroom, Mammy, lay him out on the bed as usual.
奶妈,把他带进卧室去,像往常一样把他放在床上。 - Mammy had always been wade's mainstay and her frown made him tremble.
嬷嬷一向是喜欢他并给他撑腰的,现在她一皱眉,韦德就发抖了。 - She had been Ellen's mammy and had come with her from Savannah to the up-country when she married.
她曾经做过爱伦的嬷嬷,后来爱伦结婚时跟着她从萨凡纳来到了内地。 - She's my Mammy. She's a nurse.
她是我的妈妈。她是个护士。 - The trees were killed off by the severe winter. He came out of his mammy in a field hand's cabin one sharp winter.
严冬把树木一棵一棵地都冻死了。一个严寒的冬天,他的妈妈在一个干农活的黑奴住的小屋里,生下了他。 - Hey, you go to school for your mammy.
喂,你要为妈咪去上学。 - In mammy, Scarlett had found a realist more uncompromising than herself.
思嘉发现嬷嬷是个比她自己更不妥协的现实主义者。
