n. (学校的)女舍监; 女护士长(现常称为senior nursing officer); 上年纪的已婚妇女 matron的复数
柯林斯词典
N-COUNT; N-TITLE (养老院及旧时医院中的)女护士长 The matron in a nursing home is the woman who is in charge of all the nurses. In the past, the woman in charge of the nurses in a hospital was also called a matron.
The Matron at the nursing home expressed a wish to attend... 养老院的护士长说她愿意参加。
Have you told Matron? 你告诉护士长了吗?
N-TITLE; N-COUNT (寄宿学校的)女舍监,女总管 In boarding schools, the matron is the woman who looks after the health of the children.
Matron was quite kind but brisk and hurried. 女舍监人很善良,但做事干脆利落、风风火火。
...a prep school matron. 预备学校里的女舍监
(医院等机构的)女负责人,女总管;(监狱的)女看管,女看守 The matron in a hospital or other institution is the woman who is in charge of domestic matters. Matron is also used to refer to a female officer in a prison.
中年妇女;主妇 People sometimes refer to middle-aged women as matrons .
There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone. 尤其令人瞩目的是,这些主妇们多数人一开口便是粗喉咙、大嗓门,要是在今天,她们的言谈无论是含义还是音量,都足以使我们瞠目结舌。
But under pressure from matrons not much older than herself-for a fieldman's wages being as high at twenty one as at forty, marriage was early here-Tess at length consented to go. 但是她迫于年纪比她大不了多少的妇女的压力因为一个种地的工人,在二十岁时挣的工钱同四十岁的工人挣的工钱一样多苔丝最终还是同意去了。
He always brought his mother to church, and was the pride of all the matrons. 他总是领着他妈妈到教堂来,其他的妈妈都引以为豪。
Even slim girls can become stout matrons. 甚至苗条的女孩也能变成强健的妇女。
Lolth is a god of treachery and chaos, and at her urging, her priests lead the house matrons in constant battles for dominance. 作为混乱和背叛之神,罗丝鼓励她的当任家族主母的女祭祀们为了权势争斗不息。
Here at the wedding feast, some young matrons, wide-hipped, wide-mouthed, measured Sonny Corleone with coolly confident eyes. 就在这个喜筵上,一些年轻已婚妇女,宽宽的屁股,宽宽的嘴,用沉着自信的目光打量着桑尼。
Matrons and nurses will have a chance to give hospital boards direct accounts of their efforts against superbugs to ensure that their recommendations are not overlooked by managers. 护士长和护士将有机会向医院委员会直接说明她们对抗超级病菌所作的努力,其目的是确保她们的建议不被管理者忽略。
The girls fled laughing, with the black-clad, stout matrons scolding them on. 姑娘们一边逃跑,一边哈哈大笑。那两个胖女人跟在后面骂个不停。
Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married Belles in the south. 主妇们无论年龄大小,常常坐在一起,稍稍离开那些明眸皓齿的小姐、情郎和他们的喧笑声,因为在南方,妇女一结婚就不算美人了。
A department store that caters to young matrons 迎合年轻太太们需要的百货商店
Career Identity of Female-Laid-Off Maternity Matrons in Harbin City 哈尔滨市下岗女工月嫂职业认同的研究
Hester saw and recognized the selfsame faces of that group of matrons, who had awaited her forthcoming from the prison-door seven years ago; 海丝特看见并认出了七年前等着她走出狱门的那伙人的同一副女监督式的面孔;
Middle-aged men with purple-tinted glasses and women in traditional dress, visiting South Korean sponsors and Manhattan matrons in fur, they all leapt to their feet to celebrate the New York Philharmonic's emotionally charged debut performance in Pyongyang. 不管是戴着紫色眼镜的中年男子与身着传统衣裙的朝鲜妇女,还是到访的韩国主办方与身穿皮草的曼哈顿太太,全都起身庆祝纽约爱乐乐团(NewYorkPhilharmonic)在平壤激情四溢的首演。
The hetaerism of the matrons is succeeded by the hetaerism of the maidens; 从前是妇人的杂婚制,现在是姑娘的杂婚制;
The first, the warlord, is the most powerful boar of a clan, married to the clan matrons. 第一种是军阀,是氏族里最有权势的公猪,配偶是女族长。
Clans are ruled by clan chieftains, or warlords, and a council of females, called matrons. 每个氏族由族长或军阀率领,辅以有声望的年长妇女组成的议会。
As she had hoped, he was still in the front driveway bidding good-by to departing matrons and children. 原来正如她所希望的,他还在前面车前上给好些离去的太太和孩子送别呢。