wench是什么意思_wench怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

wench (n.): late 13c., wenche "girl, young woman," especially if unmarried, also "female infant," shortened from wenchel "child," also in Middle English "girl, maiden," from Old English wencel, probably related to wancol "unsteady, fickle, weak," from Proto-Germanic *wankila- (cognates: Old Norse vakr "child, weak person," Old High German wanchal "fickle"), from PIE *weng- "to bend, curve" (see wink (v.)).
The wenche is nat dead, but slepith. [Wyclif, Matt. ix:24, c. 1380]
In Middle English occasionally with disparaging suggestion, and secondary sense of "concubine, strumpet" is attested by mid-14c. Also "serving-maid, bondwoman, young woman of a humble class" (late 14c.), a sense retained in the 19c. U.S. South in reference to slave women of any age. In Shakespeare"s day a female flax-worker could be a flax-wench, flax-wife, or flax-woman.
wench (v.): "to associate with common women," 1590s, from wench (n.). Related: Wenched; wencher; wenching.

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复数 wenches;

1. Scarlett dropped Prissy"s arm and the wench sank whimpering to the steps.: 思嘉放开百里茜的胳臂,这女孩便呜呜咽咽地在楼梯上坐下了.

3. How can you know, wench? Facts bear strong against him.: 你怎么会知道呢, 姑娘? 事实证明对他非常不利.

5. She was no sooner gone but comes a wench and a child, puffing and sweating.: 她刚一走开,立刻就来了一个姑娘同一个小孩, 喘着气,流着汗.

maiden 未婚女子

baggage 行李

dame 夫人

doll 玩具娃娃

skirt 裙子

chick 小鸡

bird 鸟

counterweight weight 平衡锤

western ragweed phr. 多年生豚草

powerplant weight 发动机装置重量

weaning weight 断奶重，断乳体重

weaving welding 摆动焊

welt wetting 沿条浸湿

wet weight 湿重

wetting power 润湿力

wedding shower （单身女子派对）——女孩子出嫁之前，为告别女生单身生活而举办的聚会。

Power Trowel 动力抹刀

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