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单词 handmaiden
释义
handmaiden
noun[C]
uk
/ˈhændˌmeɪ.dən/us
/ˈhændˌmeɪ.dən/
old use
(alsohandmaid)
afemaleservant
女仆，侍女
formal
something, such as anidea, thathelpsandsupportssomethingelse:
起辅助（或支持）作用的事物，基础
Technique is the handmaiden ofart.技巧乃艺术之基础。
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People who serve other people
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Supporters, members & defenders
(Definition ofhandmaidenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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They are heartily tired of being referred to as handmaidens and angels.
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Not only were the railways efficiently managed as handmaidens for the development and protection of her trade, but her railways were a source of very great value.
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Lip service is often paid to science and engineering, but these arc still regarded too often only as the handmaidens and not as the equal partners of statecraft and generalship.
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Literalism is not translation's best, or most gracefulhandmaiden.
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However, as she had violated the traditions, she was punished to die by being staked to the ground by the other handmaidens.
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When the handmaidens washed his legs, they asked him why they were so furry and why his hands were so calloused.
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Many believe they are the handmaidens of these goddesses, and are known as yoginis in local lore.
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They are perceived as primary values, as independent virtues, not handmaidens of political maxims and religious dogma.
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Nausica and her handmaidens go to the sea-shore to wash clothes.
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The princess and her four warrior handmaidens decide to set out to find him as well.
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The princess came with 500 high-ranking young men and a few hundred handmaidens as her entourage.
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Handmaidens are depicted without autonomy or an independent knowledge base of their ownknowing only a tiny subset of what physicians know and following all physician commands.
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The opposite could also be true : ' to dismiss doctors reductively as thehandmaidenof colonialism or capitalism ignores the more complex, and interesting, reality ' (p. 10).
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American historians have been at the forefront of defining this period in terms of the positive assessment of the ' activist consumer ' as thehandmaidenof social democracy.
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With diesels in full command, the handmaidens of steam engines, the water tanks and coaling stations would soon fall, as did the dark smudges of coal smoke.
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