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/ˈhaʊswaɪf/
a married woman whose work is at home — cooking, cleaning, and looking after her family — and who does not have a paid job outside the house.
家庭主婦
複數 housewives
核心畫面
You can picture someone whose workplace is her own home: cooking, cleaning, and keeping the family running fill her days, and she has no paid job outside the house. The word puts 'house' and 'wife' side by side, so it points at a married woman for whom the home itself is the job.
可以想成一個人的「工作場所」就設在自己家裡：煮飯、洗衣、打掃、照顧一家人的生活作息，這些事填滿她整天，而她沒有另一份…更多收起
可以想成一個人的「工作場所」就設在自己家裡：煮飯、洗衣、打掃、照顧一家人的生活作息，這些事填滿她整天，而她沒有另一份在外面領薪水的工作。這個字把 house（家）和 wife（妻子）並在一起，所以它指的不只是「待在家的人」，而是以家為工作場域的已婚女性。原始詞典資料5 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。
housewifenoun/ˈhaʊs.waɪf/
- 1
A woman whose main employment is homemaking, maintaining the upkeep of her home and tending to household affairs; often, such a woman whose sole [unpaid] employment is homemaking.
- 2000, Uli Kusch, "Mr. Torture", Helloween, The Dark Ride Mr Torture sells pain / To the housewives in Spain / He knows just what they crave / Mr Torture
- 2
The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
- 3
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work.
- It was a housewife, containing needles, a bodkin, and thread; ‘and, do you know,’ added he, ‘it was the most useful thing she could have given me, for it lasted all the time I was at Rome to mend my clothes with […].’
- Woffington's housewife, made by herself, homely to the eye, but holds everything in the world
- 4
obsoleteA worthless woman; a hussy.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。