seamstress
英 ['siːmstrɪs]
美['simstrəs]
- n. 女裁缝师；做针线活的妇女
词态变化
复数: seamstresses;
中文词源
seamstress 女裁缝
来自古英语 seamestre,女裁缝，来自 seam,裁缝，-ster,表阴性，词源同 spinster.后该词性别指 示逐渐消失，为避免歧义，又附加后缀-ess,表阴性。
英英释意
- 1. someone who makes or mends dresses
英文词源
- seamstress (n.)
- 1640s, with -ess + seamster (also sempster), from Old English seamestre "sewer, tailor, person whose work is sewing," from seam. Originally indicating a woman, but after a while the fem. ending -estre no longer was felt as such and a new one added.
实用场景例句
- The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him.
- 被当作是埃佛瑞蒙德的人下了车, 女裁缝也跟着被扶了下来.
英汉文学 - 双城记
- Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?
- 这位女裁缝在下星期之前能给我做出一套衣服 吗 ?
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- The seamstress cut off the dangling strands of thread.
- 女裁缝师剪断垂摆下来的一条线.
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- RUTH: Do you want to see me working as a seamstress?
- 鲁斯: 你是想要看着我像女裁缝那样工作 吗 ?
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- The seamstress made the dress conform to the pattern.
- 女裁缝按纸样制作衣服.
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- The seamstress tacked the two pieces of cloth.
- 女裁缝把那两块布粗缝了起来.
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- One day Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was on her way home from work.
- 有一天罗莎公园, 一个黑色的女裁缝师, 从工作在家是在途中.
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- I allow for this possibility; The seamstress planned for 5 % shrinkage after the first wash.
- 我考虑到这个可能性了; 女裁缝给衣服预留尺寸以免缩水.
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- I want you to make sure that pasty seamstress stays on our side.
- 我要你确保那个病秧子裁缝.站在我们这边.
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- His grandmother was a seamstress for a living?
- 他的祖母做针线活或是个裁缝或许以此为生?
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- The seamstress gathered in the cloth.
- 女裁缝归拢了布料.
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- My mother is the best seamstress in town.
- 我母亲可是这镇上最好的女裁缝哦!
电影对白
- The seamstress ornamented the dress with lace.
- 女裁缝用花边来装饰衣服.
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- The seamstress could habilitate anyone just by looking at them.
- 女裁缝只要看著人们就能帮他们合适地剪裁.
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- On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was an unknown black seamstress living in Montgomery, Alabama.
- 1955年12月1日, 罗莎帕克斯本是一个住在阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利市的不为人所知的女裁缝.
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- A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
- 一位女裁缝和一位缝纫师掉进了下水沟.
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- A seamstress , she had safety pins with her at all times, just in case.
- 作为一位优秀裁缝,任何时候, 她都有几个扣针在身上, 以防万一.
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- An excellent seamstress makes it fit that way.
- 优秀的裁缝师傅能根据你的体形做衣服.
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- The seamstress carefully stitched the hem of the garment.
- 女裁缝师小心缝著衣服的摺边.
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- The seamstress bound the hem of the dress with a ruffle.
- 女裁缝用褶裥饰边给女上衣镶边.
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