laundress
基本解釋
- n. 洗熨衣物的女工
英漢例句
- The masters took advantage of my age-- and then I had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little also.
此外，我從前還有一個女兒，她在河里洗衣服，在這方面她也賺點錢。 - Just because my mother employed a staff that included a cook, a nanny, a laundress, and a chauffeur didn’t mean that we were to expect any of the usual perks.
母親雇傭了廚師、保姆、洗衣工和司機并不意味著我們能夠指望任何常見的特權(quán)。 - The laundress looked on in astonishment, but as she had been promised twenty Louis, she made no remark.
那洗衣女露出驚奇的神色，但因為說好她可以拿到二十個路易，所以并不說話。 - Yesterday's long underwear would do, Hopkins thought, and then a jersey that the Jesuit Theologate's laundress had shrunk.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'