handmaiden

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。

2 “I realized that my professional ancestors have been handmaidens to this kind of exercise since the beginning of time,” Tyson said.

3 She was gentle, intelligent, gracious, a handmaiden to his every need;

她是温柔的，聪明的，文雅的，能够体贴他的一切需要的；

4 Her Highness commands you to take her handmaiden with you.

女王陛下命令你们带上她的女仆.

5 Attended by handmaidens who were brightly colored spools of thread, Cleopatra was a filigreed creamer, her Antony a stoppered cruet — and it was somehow no less moving when they died at the end.

6 Anxiety being what Eliot called "the handmaiden to creativity", he did not need to write poetry any more.

7 The first time that a red carpet was rolled out may have been in “The Oresteia” when Clytemnestra orders her handmaidens to lay down crimson tapestries for the return of her long-absent husband, Agamemnon.

8 Does Slobodian support their cause by impugning the very project of global governance as a handmaiden of capital?

9 The guys are the church elders, the women meant to be their helpmeets and handmaidens.

10 What she is is a handmaiden of a process that, since the 1960s, has been intent on customising feminism and turning it into a servant of the marketplace.

11 Architecture in Samara, says the report, "has been reduced to the role of handmaiden to semi-criminal business circles."

12 Along the way, Mr. Belton’s view of American religion as unholy handmaiden to reactionary politics gave way to a far more supple perspective.

13 The angry, frustrated soldiers might scare Sam Adams’s black handmaiden out of her wits.

14 Art was useful, too, as a handmaiden to the urgent problem of narrative.

15 Also that day, two new cast members -- a starship captain and a handmaiden -- received makeup and costume tests, but I'm not at liberty to say their names yet.

就在同一天，两个新加入的演员接受了化妆和服装测试，他们一个是星际飞船船长，一个是侍女，不过我还没有得到可以说出他们名字的许可。

16 The Rules Committee of the House of Representatives has been called many things: traffic cop, the Speaker’s committee, handmaiden of the Speaker.

17 Maybe Baja California’s reputation as the handmaiden of American vice belongs in the mythic past, with all those wispy stories of Al Capone.

18 The events that unfold lead Thomasin’s family to suspect that she might be a handmaiden of Satan—and we wonder too if, wittingly or not, she has become a conduit for evil.

19 Across the room, facing Helen, her handmaiden and Paris — and a despondent-looking dog — is Cassandra, who could see the future, along with Apollo, who had cursed her so her prophecies would not be believed.

20 Ms. Lind is well matched by Alison Wright’s shrewd Emilia, Desdemona’s handmaiden and Iago’s wife, who has a will as sharp as her acerbic tongue.

1 女仆

maid wench maidservant housemaid girl lass handmaid fille muchacha gentlewoman chambermaid skivvy bonne ancilla

2 女佣

sevika maidservant housemaid ayah

3 基础

basic fundamental elementary elemental base basis basics cornerstone keystone bedrock fundamentals the rudiments building blocks rudimentary foot stuff element foundation root pillar starting point backbone footing springboard substructure rudiments

4 根基

base root

5 侍女

maid maidservant parlourmaid woman handmaid gentlewoman Abigail soubrette ancilla