a substitute, especially a person deputizing for another in a specific role or office 代理人;替代者 wives of MPs are looked on as surrogates for their husbands while the latter are at Westminster. 当议员们在威斯敏斯特时,他们的夫人被看作其丈夫的代理人。 ■(in the Christian Church) a bishop's deputy who grants marriage licences (基督教)(签发结婚证书的)主教代理人 ■(in the US) a judge in charge of probate, inheritance, and guardianship (美国)(掌管遗嘱,遗产,监护事宜的)遗嘱检验法官
surrogateship noun 语源
early 17th cent.: from Latin surrogatus, past participle of surrogare 'elect as a substitute', from super- 'over' + rogare 'ask'