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 midwife ['midwaif]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 助产士, 接生婆

[医] 助产士




    midwife
    midwives
    [ noun ]
    a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies
    <noun.person>


    Midwife \Mid"wife`\, n.; pl. {Midwives}. [OE. midwif, fr. AS.
    mid with (akin to Gr. ?) + ? woman, wife. Properly, the woman
    or wife who is attendant upon a woman in childbirth. See
    {Meta-}, and {Wife}.]
    A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female
    practitioner of the obstetric art.


    Midwife \Mid"wife`\, v. t.
    To assist in childbirth.


    Midwife \Mid"wife`\, v. i.
    To perform the office of midwife.

    1. GPs rarely inform women of their right to a home birth with a midwife, referring them straight to hospital and an obstetrician.
    2. We watch Aunt Baby scrabble from abject poverty to a useful calling as a midwife, see her deliver the baby of a mother near death, and finally witness her own fiery death in a blaze set by the Ku Klux Klan.
    3. Millie, the first dog, was nursing her litter of six pups today after giving birth at the White House with first lady Barbara Bush serving as midwife, a spokeswoman for Mrs. Bush said.
    4. According to Mrs. Rossetti, the midwife said that she had asked the young mother if there were any twins in her family and the woman had replied that her aunts were twins.
    5. Others arrive midway through a difficult or troubled labor their midwife decided she could not complete.
    6. She finished studying as a midwife last year.
    7. My husband may not want to accept it, but he's not the one who's tired" she added in the tribal language Djerma, speaking through a midwife who translated.
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