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
- Again the tears began to fall but this time mammy did not even wipe them away.
嬷嬷又开始在流泪,不过这一次她索性不擦了。 - Would you like to come back with me till your mammy comes home?
你妈回来前,你想跟着我吗? - What's a good choice, mammy!
这是个多好的选择呀,妈咪! - Mammy used to hold her over my head whenever I was naughty.
以前我只要一淘气,嬷嬷就拿她来警戒我。 - 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。 - Hey, you go to school for your mammy.
喂,你要为妈咪去上学。 - Mammy, I want some hot water.
奶妈,给我弄一点热水。 - 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。 - Don't you think it be nice if you bought something for Mammy, too?
如果给奶妈也买点礼物,你不会觉得更好吗? - And Mammy was hardly polite to him.
而嬷嬷对他却不怎么客气。
