英:[ˈhaʊski:pə(r)]
美:[ˈhaʊsˌkipɚ]
英:[ˈhaʊski:pə(r)]
美:[ˈhaʊsˌkipɚ]
house·keep·er
haUs ki pr
复数:housekeepers
词根:housekeep
n.housekeeping 家政;家务管理;家用开支
housecraft 家政学;(英)管家的技能
vi.housekeep 主持家务;自立门户
noun
one employed to manage the domestic duties involved in maintaining a house
a member of a household who manages the domestic duties of the householdespecially: one who keeps house in a specified way was always a good/poor housekeeper … a tidy housekeeper who kept flowers outside his unit … —Kyle Swenson
She was her father's housekeeper …—Lucy Maud Montgomery
15世纪中期,“房主”,源自 house(n.)和 keeper。后来成为 householder 的同义词。 “女性家庭女佣”的意义可追溯至1600年(作为妻子职责的一部分,指“keep house”,可追溯至14世纪晚期)。Housekeep(v.)可追溯至1842年,似乎是一种反构词。
The first known use of housekeeper was circa 1528
housekeepingnoun
the care and management of a house and home affairs
housekeepernoun
a person employed to take care of a house
1 But the housekeeper lingered by the door, and the basket stayed shut.
可这时女管家却一个劲地在门外徘徊,提篮也紧闭着。
2 Miss Brown had remained behind with the frightened housekeeper.
布朗小姐和受惊的女管家一起呆在后面.
3 Mom used to work as a housekeeper at Emanuel Hospital, but she got fired because she was caught stealing supplies.
4 “Then why not take me with you? I could be a housekeeper.”
5 Even his housekeeper communicated with him by letter.
6 They had seemed to accept her as something more than a housekeeper.
7 How will Mr Andrews get on without a housekeeper?
安德鲁斯没有管家怎么能行 呢 ?
8 The law also covers support workers, such as janitors, housekeepers, food service workers, medical billing personnel and gift shop clerks.
9 She asked the housekeeper to clean out their drawers.
她让保姆把抽屉打扫干净.
10 It was one thing, he thought, to hire a housekeeper; it was another to hire someone they already knew, the mother of one of their children’s friends.
11 I tried out for the role of the housekeeper.
12 I ended up working nine years as a housekeeper.
13 Women are now considered as equal partners, not as chattels or housekeepers.
如今妇女已被视为平等的伴侣, 而非私有财产或家庭主妇.
14 Most of the commuters heading back to Newark at this hour are exhausted housekeepers trekking back to their urban dwellings after a day in the wealthier suburbs.
15 I remembered the answer of the old housekeeper at the parsonage, when I had asked to see the clergyman.
16 Whether Miss Love was now Grandpa’s wife or still just his housekeeper, she wouldn’t put her own money into plumbing if she was still thinking about leaving Cold Sassy.
17 “Said it would be a marriage in name only. I’d just be his housekeeper. He made it clear he didn’t love me or anything, and said of course I didn’t love him. ‘
18 I cleaned up a bit and asked our housekeeper to rinse off the steps and flowers.
我简单打扫了一下,然后让保姆把台阶和牵牛花清洗干净.
19 “Ahwoooooooooooooo !” Without further discussion, Penelope shoved the distraught housekeeper aside, leaned her full weight against the great wooden doors, and pushed them open.
20 “This was President Davis’s office,” a housekeeper says respectfully.