Domestic

(noun.) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household.

(adj.) produced in a particular country; 'domestic wine'; 'domestic oil' .

(adj.) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; 'domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction' .

(adj.) of or involving the home or family; 'domestic worries'; 'domestic happiness'; 'they share the domestic chores'; 'everything sounded very peaceful and domestic'; 'an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste' .

(adj.) converted or adapted to domestic use; 'domestic animals'; 'domesticated plants like maize' .

(adj.) of or relating to the home; 'domestic servant'; 'domestic science' .

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• She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means, although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He won't be here this three-quarters of an hour or more,' said the young lady who superintended the domestic arrangements of the Blue Boar. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Pott's domestic circle was limited to himself and his wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The first two weeks after her return represented to Mrs. Peniston the domestic equivalent of a religious retreat. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I love home, I am somewhat domestic, I love, dearly love my parents, and wish to improve the little talents God has given me. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But the money which, by this annual diminution of produce, is annually thrown out of domestic circulation, will not be allowed to lie idle. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These propositions will be most readily understood by looking to our domestic races. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Hence it has been argued that no deductions can be drawn from domestic races to species in a state of nature. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• By the scallop-shell of Compostella, I will make a martyr of him, if he loiters here to hatch treason among my domestics! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It cost some exercise of the white truncheon, well seconded by the exertions of the domestics, to silence this canine clamour. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The domestics were dismissed at her pleasure. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Domestics are in all countries a spoiled and unruly set. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Only two or three domestics shuddered in the bleak old servants' hall. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She warned the domestics not to touch the child, as Mrs. Osborne might be offended. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Thirty horses stood in his stables, twenty-four male domestics sat in his halls, six body-women waited on his wife. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• This personage had been exerting himself, with great alacrity, in driving all the flock of domestics to the other end of the verandah. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The three or four domestics resident in the deserted old house came presently at that jangling and continued summons. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Miss Horrocks was installed as housekeeper at Queen's Crawley, and ruled all the domestics there with great majesty and rigour. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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