charwoman
英 [ˈtʃɑːˌwʊm.ən]
美 [ˈtʃɑːrˌwʊm.ən]
记忆“charwoman”这个单词的方法可以是将其分解为更简单的部分来帮助记忆:
1. **char**:联想到“charcoal”,意为木炭。
2. **-woman**:表示女性。
将这两个部分结合起来,想象一个女性在清洁,就像用木炭(char)一样彻底,这样的形象可以帮助你记住“charwoman”是指“女清洁工”或“女佣”。
以上内容由AI生成, 仅供参考和借鉴
charwoman 打杂女佣词源同chore, charlady.
- charwoman
-
charwoman: [16] A charwoman is, quite literally, a woman who does ‘chores’. Chore is a variant of the now obsolete noun chare or char, which meant literally ‘turn’ (it derived from the Old English verb cerran, which may be the source of charcoal). Hence ‘doing one’s turn’, ‘one’s turn at work’ in due course advanced its meaning to ‘job’. Already by the 15th century it had connotations of menial or household jobs: ‘making the beds and such other chares’, Nicholas Love, Bonaventura’s Mirror 1410.
=> ajar, chore
- charwoman (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle English char, cherre "turn of work" (see chore) + woman. An Alicia Charwoman appears in the Borough of Nottingham records in 1379.
- 1. The only person inside the gloomy building was a charwoman cleaning.
- 那个昏暗的建筑里面唯一的人,就是一个打杂儿的女人,在那儿打扫屋子.