We had to hire maids through an agency.

我们得通过代理公司雇用女佣。

In particular, dairy maids, whose responsibility was to milk cows, and so they had a very intimate relationship with cattle, often didn't get smallpox.

特别是挤奶女工，她们的职责就是挤奶，因此她们与牛有着非常亲密的关系，通常不会得天花。

Talk to the maids. They know it all.

和女佣聊聊吧，她们知道的可多了。

I and my maids will fast as you do.

我和我的宫女也要这样禁食。

We lived in a palatial house with maids.

我们住在豪宅里，也有了仆人。

I decided we should "hire out" as maids.

我觉得我们应该去“打工”做女佣。

The plight of maids in Saudi Arabia touches a nerve at home.

在沙特阿拉伯做佣人的困境触动了国内。

This activity is evidently intended to marry off all the old maids.

这次活动是为了全体老小姐都能出嫁。

It is a bad time, then, for a Saudi freeze on hiring Filipino maids.

这是一段糟糕的时期，因为沙特冻结了对菲佣的招聘。

Think of them as thuggish meter maids or health inspectors with batons.

你可以把他们想象成挥舞着警棍的咪表女郎或者卫生巡视员。

Chile imports doctors and maids from Peru, raising worries about a brain drain.

智利由秘鲁引入大量医生和女佣，这已增加了对人才外流的担忧。

Maids want nothing but husbands, but when they have them they want everything.

未婚女子不要别的，只要丈夫，有了丈夫以后，一切都要。

The maids don't think it respectable to dance at "The Flower-de-Luce", ' he explained.

“女孩子们觉得在花露斯这个地方来跳舞不雅观，”他解释说。

Violet opened the television cabinet as if to make sure the maids hadn't stolen the TV.

薇儿蕾特打开电视柜，好像在看电视机有没有让佣人偷了。

Maids at some of the more attentive shops even offer to spoon-feed customers at their table.

还有一些咖啡屋的服务更周到，服务员甚至喂顾客进餐。\ n。

The bride had 20 maids of honour and the groom had 20 assorted groomsmen of all ages and types.

新娘有20个伴娘，新郎则有20个各色伴郎，集中了各种年纪和类型。

Six of the couple's eight maids, as well as the family's two drivers, had gone home to their villages.

这对夫妇八个女佣中的六个，以及两名家庭司机，已经回他们在乡下的家里。

They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

在我家寄居的，和我的使女都以我为外人。我在他们眼中看为外邦人。

The result was a riot of Chinese opera, Japaneseanime, French maids, Conan the Barbarian and Star Wars.

这里将呈现一场由京剧、日本动漫、法国妹抖、野蛮人柯南和星球大战集结而成的视觉盛宴。

The kitchens were full of cooks and maids who hadn't moved for a hundred years — They were all fast asleep.

厨房里都是一百年不曾动过一下的厨子和厨娘——他们都睡着了。

They have set up text-message numbers so that maids trapped at home can report abuses and get free legal advice.

他们设立了号码接收短信，使女佣被困在家中时能够发短信举报虐待行为并免费获得法律上的建议。

They leant over the gate by the highway, and inquired as to the meaning of the dance and the white-frocked maids.

他们斜靠在大路边的栅栏门上，询问妇女穿白袍跳舞的意思。

Many steamboats could boast of famous chefs, orchestras, and large staffs of maids and butlers to assist their cabin passengers.

很多蒸汽船甚至拥有名厨，管弦乐队，大量的女佣和管家来服务他们的房舱旅客。