distaff 是什么意思

名词复数:distaffs

	n. 1.(手工纺织用的)卷线杆。 2.针线活，女活，妇女工作，妇道。 3.〔集合词〕女性。 4.女人。短语和例子 distaff side 母方，母系 (opp. spear side)。 adj. 〔书面语〕女子的，女性的，妇道的。 cooking, sewing and such distaff matters 做饭缝衣这类女活。 n. -er 家庭中的女性。

	the staff on which wool or flax is wound before spinning
	the sphere of work by women

characteristic of or peculiar to a woman; "female sensitiveness"; "female suffrage"
同义词：female,

As a noun, a distaff (, also called a rock"Rock." The Oxford English Dictionay.

	1.	The worker is pushing the distaff 工人们正在推卷线杆。
	2.	Faith daniels , the distaff anchor of the " cbs early morning news , " was ready to jump ship last week , following in the footsteps of her former sidekick , forrest sawyer , who skipped town last september “哥伦比亚广播公司早晨新闻”女主播丹尼尔斯，上周已决定跟随她的以前助手索耶（九月已离纽约）的脚步辞职。

distaff是什么意思