| 词汇 | example_english_handmaiden |
| 释义 | Examples of handmaidenThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. They are heartily tired of being referred to as handmaidens and angels. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not only were the railways efficiently managed as handmaidens for the development and protection of her trade, but her railways were a source of very great value. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lip service is often paid to science and engineering, but these arc still regarded too often only as the handmaidens and not as the equal partners of statecraft and generalship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Literalism is not translation's best, or most graceful handmaiden. However, as she had violated the traditions, she was punished to die by being staked to the ground by the other handmaidens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. When the handmaidens washed his legs, they asked him why they were so furry and why his hands were so calloused. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many believe they are the handmaidens of these goddesses, and are known as yoginis in local lore. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are perceived as primary values, as independent virtues, not handmaidens of political maxims and religious dogma. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nausica and her handmaidens go to the sea-shore to wash clothes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The princess and her four warrior handmaidens decide to set out to find him as well. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The princess came with 500 high-ranking young men and a few hundred handmaidens as her entourage. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Handmaidens are depicted without autonomy or an independent knowledge base of their ownknowing only a tiny subset of what physicians know and following all physician commands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The opposite could also be true : ' to dismiss doctors reductively as the handmaiden of colonialism or capitalism ignores the more complex, and interesting, reality ' (p. 10). American historians have been at the forefront of defining this period in terms of the positive assessment of the ' activist consumer ' as the handmaiden of social democracy. With diesels in full command, the handmaidens of steam engines, the water tanks and coaling stations would soon fall, as did the dark smudges of coal smoke. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The personal donation of favour will always carry with it the reciprocal responsibility that should be aired, and reciprocal responsibilities are the handmaiden of corruption. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If defence policy is to be the handmaiden of foreign policy, then it is possible to ensure that the commitments go away. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is there—a labourer, a general handmaiden who runs around the factory, unable to improve his earnings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In our submission, the chief objective should be that transport of whatever kind ought to be the handmaiden of industry and trade. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Privilege and responsibility go together: the one is the handmaiden of the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Music is rightly seen as a handmaiden of mathematic and scientific achievement—indeed, music is mathematics; the two are integrally related. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that advertising was the handmaiden of commerce. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The one must be the handmaiden of the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the function of a school is to be the handmaiden of industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Transport is the handmaiden of industry, and therefore it should be available to industry in the most efficient and most economical form. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The demand-led aspects of direct electoral accountability do not always have reason as their handmaiden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, defence policy is the handmaiden of foreign affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Science is now our handmaiden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In ironing, cooking, cleaning, washing, and heating, electricity, reduced to a price which our people can afford to pay, would be the handmaiden of the working woman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Propaganda is the handmaiden of politics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There has been a great deal of lip-service paid during the course of this debate to the idea that defence policy should be the handmaiden of foreign policy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Pessimism is the handmaiden of defeat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, human nature is such that many will not do that, and there will be growing pressure for conformity, which is the handmaiden of a lack of principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The handmaiden character was revived from the i-appli version, and the bamboo spear has the added effect of deflecting enemy projectiles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The court characterized the press as the handmaiden of effective judicial administration, especially in the criminal process. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The handmaiden character does not appear in the i-appli mobile phone version. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ghost enemy is no longer invincible, and the ninja and handmaiden change to kunoichi and princesses, respectively, as the game progresses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. History was the handmaiden of ideology and politics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. She is released by tricking them into thinking she is a handmaiden. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A handmaiden offers to hide it instead. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A grotesque handmaiden may also appear on some levels, and coming in contact with this handmaiden will prevent the player from moving for a short period of time. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The rich nature of the medieval written record has meant that archaeology has often been seen as the handmaiden to history, especially in the later medieval period. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. During the latter part of the 20th century, increases in autonomy and professional status changed the nursing role from handmaiden to the doctor to independent practitioners. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. According to him, that view treats phonology and syntax as "passive handmaidens of syntax" that could not, therefore, have evolved prior to syntax. If archaeology is still the 'handmaiden of history' it is because it is too timid. Several suggest that reason is still only a handmaiden. Science must not suffer itself to become the handmaiden of theology or economy or state. Science (he said) was the handmaiden of decadent and materialistic bourgeois culture. Defined and valued as a practical art, it existed largely as the stepchild of physics or as handmaiden to medicine, pharmacy, industry, and theology. In spite of the alleged goals of academic research to provide intellectual information to the community that supports it, academic research is instead becoming increasingly the handmaiden of corporate interests. Accordingly, philosophy and its related scientific disciplines were still considered the "handmaiden of theology," and scientific exploration of the universe did not gain an autonomous status. We are really being asked to be the handmaidens of patent law. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I support them in their struggle to shake off the image of being angels or handmaidens. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the inseparable handmaidens of voluntary effort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The law and the capitalist mechanism are wholly handmaidens in this process. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Midwives have an excellent training which equips them to be practitioners in their own right and not to be the mere handmaidens of doctors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Accountants are essentially the handmaidens, they are the servants and, too often, they have become the bosses. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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