| 单词 | nurse |
| 释义 | nurse I. 1. a. b. 2. a. b. < time is a nurse and breeder of all good — Shakespeare > 3. a. b. 4. 5. a. b. c. < nurse doe > < nurse cow > < nurse mare > 6. • - to nurse II. transitive verb 1. a. < four women were unable to nurse their infants — J.P.Greenhill > < keep the kittens alive till the mother can nurse them — Eleanor B. Simmons > b. < possible for a baby to contract tuberculosis from nursing its mother — L.H.Brevard > < the foal should not be permitted to nurse the mare when she is hot and sweating — James Law & M.S.Shahan > 2. < for we were nursed upon the selfsame hill — John Milton > 3. a. < anything to nurse the arts and bring them into the homes of the … people — M.R.Cohen > < the policy of attracting original work and nursing authors of promise — Times Literary Supplement > b. < nursed the long rows of vines that were their livelihood — Margaret Evans > c. < on his hundreds of thousands of dollars — nursed into millions — a substantial Boston family had been built — J.A.Michener > d. < to ensure that performers arrive on time he nurses them from show to show — Don Everitt > < trout are hatched and nursed to planting age — American Guide Series: Washington > e. < fancied it to be their interest … to nurse the embers of the old enmity into a flame — Edward Edwards > 4. a. < great-grandfather was bedridden … and my mother nursed him — Ellen Glasgow > b. < would stay in her room and nurse a sick headache — Louis Auchincloss > < had been pitched against a bridge … and was nursing a painfully bruised arm — Llewellyn Howland > 5. < had spent the night watches in nursing his wrath — John Buchan > < did not nurse the idea that her life was at an end — Arnold Bennett > < nursed a plan to invade the South and forcibly liberate the slaves — B.B.Stutler > 6. < nurse my fat briefcase on my knees and go through my papers — Christopher Morley > < took her hands again and nursed them against my cheek — Mary Austin > 7. a. < trying to nurse a gigantic crippled plane back over many hundreds of miles of open ocean — J.A.Michener > b. < nurses his time so that he may keep his brain in rested condition for decisions — Atlantic > c. < like to nurse a drink … and watch the people around us — Dwight Taylor > < nurses a cup of coffee and a doughnut until it is morning — Norman Mailer > 8. chiefly Britain < is busy nursing his constituency and calculating how he can be reelected — W.E.Binkley > 9. intransitive verb 1. a. b. 2. Synonyms: < spinning theories of fiction is my favorite amusement … a good habit to cultivate — Ellen Glasgow > < whatever physical gifts she may have are carefully cultivated — Lafcadio Hearn > < the morbid curiosity cultivated in Browning by his father's tasks and inclinations — Ruth R. Chapman > nurture places stress on giving that which sustains and affording a safe environment pointing toward a certain development or course < men who have not been nurtured in dissecting rooms and other laboratories — C.S.Peirce > < had been nurtured in sentiments opposed to the institution of human servitude — R.P.Warren > foster may suggest the relationship of foster parent to child in implying caring for, encouraging, sustaining, and maintaining growth < such a sentiment is fostered by all those agencies of the mind and spirit which may serve to gather up the traditions of the people — Felix Frankfurter > < the pope … used his powers to foster abuses that brought wealth to the Roman court — G.M.Trevelyan > < we must foster on every campus the principle of individualism as contrasted with docile receptivity — C.M.Fuess > cherish implies fondness or love for something with incidental nurturing of it < a cause which is embraced and cherished by so vast a portion of American society — Kenneth Roberts > III. |
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