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
  Synonym:mamamamammamommommamommymummummy
• an offensive term for a Black nursemaid in the southern U.S.

双语例句

• Mammy will be there and aunt melly.
  嬷嬷和媚兰姑姑都在那里。
• 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。
• He's my Dady. She's my Mammy.
  他是我的爸爸。她是我的妈妈。
• Frankie, why don't you ask your mammy?
  弗兰基，你未何不问你妈妈？
• The trees were killed off by the severe winter. He came out of his mammy in a field hand's cabin one sharp winter.
  严冬把树木一棵一棵地都冻死了。一个严寒的冬天，他的妈妈在一个干农活的黑奴住的小屋里，生下了他。
• You ain't holding that against old Mammy, is you?
  你不会因为那个而对一个老奶妈生我气吧？
• Hey, you go to school for your mammy.
  喂，你要为妈咪去上学。
• And Mammy was hardly polite to him.
  而嬷嬷对他却不怎么客气。
• What's a good choice, mammy!
  这是个多好的选择呀，妈咪！
• In mammy, Scarlett had found a realist more uncompromising than herself.
  思嘉发现嬷嬷是个比她自己更不妥协的现实主义者。