scullery是什么意思

双语例句

(1)If it wasn't, it was little Betty Butterworth, the scullery-maid.

如果不是，那就是贝蒂·巴特沃思，洗涤室的小女佣。

(2)"Martha," Mary said, "has the scullery-maid had the toothache again today?"

“玛莎，” 她说，“那个厨房女佣的牙今天又痛了吗?”

(3)The relegation of France from top table to scullery would be an historic post-war shift.

法国从桌上上宾到捉襟见肘是战后一个历史性的转变。

(4)What about the kitchen sink? It's hidden away behind an archway which leads into a small scullery.

厨房的水槽呢？这是一个琉璃坊拱门后面隐藏通向一个小的光环。

(5)It really had not occurred to her to think of them in that light. Scullery maids were machines who carried coal scuttles and made fires.

这样的想法是她所从没有过的，那种只不过搬煤箱与生火炉的机器才称做是厨房丫头的。

释义

n.

a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work

洗碗间；炊具存放室。

词源

"late Middle English （denoting the department of a household concerned with kitchen utensils）：from Old French escuelerie, from escuele ‘dish'， from Latin scutella ‘salver'， diminutive of scutra ‘wooden platter’．"