| 释义 |
midwife/ˈmidwaif/n. (pl. -wives /-waivz/) 1 a person (usu. a woman) trained to assist women in childbirth (通常妇女)助产士；接生员；产婆 2 a person or thing that brings about change 促进者；催生因素；促成因素 act as a midwife to emergent culture 作新兴文化的促进者 □ midwifery /-wifri/ n.[Middle English, probably from obsolete prep. mid ‘with’ + WIFE ‘woman’, in the sense of ‘a person who is with the mother’] |