She earned money by working as a maid and doing other work.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

III Yonder a maid and her wight Come whispering by: War's annals will fade into night Ere their story die.

那边一个女仆和她的同伴,走进来低语：,在故事结束前战争会没入夜色中。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

And this person looked at me and said, "Well the maid was from Dijon." And another time, somebody's French was very good and I said, "Why is your French so good?"

然后这哥们看着我说,"我们家保姆是第戎的",还有一次,也有个人法语特好我就问,你法语怎么这么好

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

In her later years,she worked as a teacher,a librarian and as maid.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

His second wife was a Latvian peasant maid.

他的第二任妻子是一位拉脱维亚农民出身的女佣

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

She also worked as a maid,cleaning the homes of white people.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

So I went by night and fought against it from the break of dawn until noon, taking it and slaying all 7000 men, boys, women and girls and maid servants, for I had devoted them to destruction for the god Ashtar Chemosh", referring to herem. It is likely that such claims are hyperbolic in Moab and it is likely they were hyperbolic in Israel.

我连夜赶路，与它战斗,从破晓到正午，拿下了它,屠杀了全部7000个长幼男人和女人，还有女仆，我奉献他们给阿斯塔基摩神，这便是祭祀，这些很有可能是摩押的假设,他们在以色列也很有可能是虚构的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It said she would never have to play a maid.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

"When a maid was hired to permanently work in the kitchen, Dickinson actually remained in the kitchen to write."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Pan,a maid, is one of the thousands of people who cheered as the demonstrators paraded in Bangkok.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"Before she had a maid, she was in there cooking and doing all of the baking."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"Her writing really jumps in a huge way when a permanent maid is in the kitchen.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

In her book,"Maid as Muse." Murray explores the relationship between Dickinson and her staff.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

She stored them in her maid's trunk, trusting Maher to keep them safe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"First of all, having a maid made it possible for her to write."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But those "nobodies" - long lost to history - are about to be recognized for their contributions to American literature with the publication of "Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson's Life and Language."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Promise This-When You be Dying- Some shall summon Me- "And that way in which she says 'when you be dying', that's so classically the way African Americans structure their sentences, with that interesting use of 'be,'" "Maid as Muse" author Aife Murray says writing her book was a way for her to give credit where credit is due - to the unsung men and women whose language and culture enhanced the work of one of America's best-loved poets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22