charwoman是什么意思

n. 按日雇用的女佣；打杂的女佣人

中文词源

charwoman 打杂女佣

词源同chore, charlady.

charwoman: charwoman: [16] A charwoman is, quite literally, a woman who does ‘chores’. Chore is a variant of the now obsolete noun chare or char, which meant literally ‘turn’ (it derived from the Old English verb cerran, which may be the source of charcoal). Hence ‘doing one’s turn’, ‘one’s turn at work’ in due course advanced its meaning to ‘job’. Already by the 15th century it had connotations of menial or household jobs: ‘making the beds and such other chares’, Nicholas Love, Bonaventura’s Mirror 1410.
=> ajar, chore
charwoman (n.): 1590s, from Middle English char, cherre "turn of work" (see chore) + woman. An Alicia Charwoman appears in the Borough of Nottingham records in 1379.

1. The only person inside the gloomy building was a charwoman cleaning.: 那个昏暗的建筑里面唯一的人,就是一个打杂儿的女人,在那儿打扫屋子.来自辞典例句

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