handmaiden

noun

1. 女用人；侍女
   a female servant
2. 根基；基础
   something that supports and helps sth else
   1. Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences.
      数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。

1. 侍女;女仆
   A handmaiden is a female servant.
2. N-COUNT 起服务作用的东西;辅助;支持
   If one thing is the handmaiden of another, the first thing helps the second or makes it possible.
   1. The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.
      人们担心的是科学会成为工业的仆人。

1. The fear is that science could become the handmaiden of industry.
   人们担心的是科学会成为工业的仆人。
2. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests.
   相信政府的决策不仅仅是强大利益集团的仆役，也许是愚蠢的。
3. Theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.
   神学应该从属于伦理学。
4. With Mary, the handmaiden of the Lord, you will discover the joy and fruitfulness of the hidden life.
   与上主的婢女玛利亚一起，你们会发现默观生活的喜乐和丰盈。
5. Paradoxically, equality in the Nordic countries has functioned as the handmaiden of creative destruction.
   事实可能是，北欧国家的平等发挥了帮助创造性破坏（creativedestruction）的作用。
6. It was once widely believed that technology would be the handmaiden of totalitarianism, enabling governments to tighten their power over the individual.
   人们曾普遍认为，技术将是集权主义的帮凶，使政府可以加紧对个人的控制。
7. And there are the sort of goddesses or Aeolus of wind and handmaiden for Venus herself.
   也毋庸说那些送来鲜花的女神，把维纳斯送到岸边的风神，和她那些侍女等都是虚构出来的。
8. The goddess Hera is attended by her handmaiden Iris.
   女神赫拉是出席由她的婢女虹膜。
9. The notion of summers as an intellectual handmaiden, "helping" others refine their arguments, is at odds with his reputation as a supremely self-confident intellectual bulldozer.
   人们将萨默斯看成一位知识分子侍女，“帮助”别人提炼观点，但这一看法与他是高度自信的“知识界推土机”声誉不一致。
10. His historical sweep made necessity appear as the handmaiden of the statesman's perception.
    他精通历史，好象历史必然性都变成了供这位远见卓识的政治家差遣的女仆。
11. Sab é becomes a decoy, disguised as the Queen, while Amidala adopts a simple gown of a handmaiden, and goes by her less formal name of Padm é Naberrie.
    莎比伪装成皇后，成为引诱敌人的诱饵，皇后则换上简单的宫女长袍，并使用她较不正式的名字佩米纳贝瑞。
12. It assuages the sense of moral panic that has been the handmaiden of prohibition for a century.
    它减轻了禁令实行一个世纪来一直伴随着的道德恐慌感。
13. The fund acted far too long as a creditor collection agency, a defender of the dollar as the sole reserve currency and even as a handmaiden to US sectoral interests in trade policy.
    IMF过去过多地扮演债权国的讨债机构、以及将美元作为唯一储备货币的捍卫者的角色，甚至在贸易政策中照顾美国个别产业的利益。
14. My handmaiden will let us out.
    我的婢女会把你们带出去的。
15. Technique is the handmaiden of art.
    技巧乃艺术之依托。

noun

1. a personal maid or female attendant

   Synonym:    handmaid

2. in a subordinate position
   1. theology should be the handmaiden of ethics
   2. the state cannot be a servant of the church

   Synonym:    handmaidservant