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matrons

  • n.
  • 1. (尤指早期的)女护士长,女院长:在医院、学校或其他机构中负责管理和监督的女性。
  • 2. 成熟的、有威严的妇女:年长、有经验的女性,通常已婚,具有权威和尊严。

网络释义英英释义

短语

jury of matrons 妇女陪审员

The Matrons 妇女篇

matron [ 'meitrən ]

  • n.
    • a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified
    • a wardress in a prison
    • a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution

      同义词: head nurse

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

matron /ˈmeɪtrən/ TEM8

  • 1. 

    N-COUNT People sometimes refer to middle-aged women as matrons. 中年妇女 [OLD-FASHIONED, WRITTEN]

  • 2. 

    N-COUNT The matron in a hospital or other institution is the woman who is in charge of domestic matters. Matron is also used to refer to a female officer in a prison. (医院的)女负责人; (监狱的)女看守 [美国英语] [老式]

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  • It was middle class matrons, the sort who dressed up to go shopping, who missed the deference shown by traditional grocers.

    打扮得漂漂亮亮出去购物的中产阶级家庭的主妇们,怀念传统杂货店给予的尊重。

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  • To test the importance of these militant matrons, Dr Keigo and his colleagues introduced predatory ladybug larvae to the plants.

    为测验这些“祖母军”的重要性,井吴博士和其同事引入了一种以蚜虫为食的瓢虫幼虫。

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  • But under pressure from matrons not much older than herself - for a fieldman's wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here - Tess at length consented to go.

    但是她迫于年纪比她大不了多少的妇女的压力——因为一个种地的工人,在二十岁时挣的工钱同四十岁的工人挣的工钱一样多——苔丝最终还是同意去了。

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