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A charwoman is a woman paid to clean, especially in someone else’s house — floors, grates, steps, the messy jobs that come by the day rather than as a live-in servant. The word is old-fashioned now, and it belongs to Britain more than to the US. In older novels and plays she often arrives in the morning, does the rough work, and goes home; she is working-class, and the word can sound a little looking-down if you use it today. People who do this work now are much more likely to be called a cleaner. You still meet charwoman in Victorian stories, in older films, and in the set phrase , which is the same job with a slightly softer tone.
清潔婦、幫人打掃的女工(舊稱;現在多說清潔工)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
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A woman employed to do housework, traditionally coming and going on a daily basis and paid weekly wages.
- The cloth was laid by an occasional charwoman, who officiated in the capacity of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s housekeeper; […]
- Through a partly-opened door the noise of a scrubbing-brush led up to the charwoman, Maryann Money, a person who for a face had a circular disc, furrowed less by age than by long gazes of perplexity at distant objects.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。