喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈhaʊswaɪf/家庭主婦

    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.

    housewife 可以想成 house（家）＋ wife（妻子）長在一起的字：一位已婚女性，她工作的地方在家裡——煮飯、打掃、照顧家人——而不是在公司或店裡上班。這個字的意思有一半在「沒有外面的有薪工作」這一點上，所以一邊上班一邊做家事的媽媽通常不會這樣說自己。男生做同樣的事叫 house husband，現在也很多人用不分男女的 homemaker。

    示範例句 · Example

    My grandmother was a housewife, and she cooked for the whole family every day.

    中文翻譯我的祖母是一位家庭主婦，而她每天為全家人煮飯。

    常見搭配

    • a full-time housewife

      全職家庭主婦

      a woman whose only work is looking after her home and family

      After the twins were born, she became a full-time housewife.

    • become a housewife

      成為家庭主婦

      to start staying at home to look after your home and family

      She left her office job and became a housewife when her son was born.

    • a busy housewife

      忙碌的家庭主婦

      a housewife who has a lot of work to do at home

      As a busy housewife, Mrs. Lin plans all the meals a week ahead.

    • the average housewife

      一般的家庭主婦

      a typical or ordinary housewife, used when talking about most of them

      The magazine says the average housewife spends four hours a day on housework.

    意思相近

    homemakerstay-at-home wife

    用法接近

    homemakerhouse husbandstay-at-home motherhousekeeperhousework

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English houswyf; house + wife; a doublet of hussy.

源自中古英文，就是 house 加 wife；和 hussy 本是同一個字。

Wiktionary

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。

同家族的字

housewives

意思相近

homemakerstay-at-home wife

用法接近

homemakerhouse husbandstay-at-home motherhousekeeperhousework

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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：

  • housewive

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。