midwife
midwife
(pl. -wives )
midwifery
[-ˈwɪf(ə)ri]
noun
语源
(pl. -wives )
- a person (typically a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth
助产士；产婆
■(figurative)a person or thing that helps to bring something into being or assists its development
(喻)催生者；促进发展者
he survived to be one of the midwives of the Reformation.
他活了下来，成为推进宗教改革者之一。
- [with obj.]assist (a woman) during childbirth
助（妇女）生产
■(figurative)bring into being
(喻)促生，给…催生
revolutions midwifed by new technologies of communication.
由新通信技术催生的革新。
midwifery
[-ˈwɪf(ə)ri]
noun
语源
- Middle English: probably from the obsolete preposition mid 'with' + wife (in the archaic sense 'woman'), expressing the sense 'a woman who is with (the mother')
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