核心畫面

A useful picture: the woman whose name is on the place — she owns the roof you are sitting under, and you are there on her terms. Whether you pay rent every month or just pay for a drink at her bar, the place is hers and you are the one who came in.

這個地方是她的,你人在她的屋簷底下。房子、樓、地、酒館——名字掛在誰身上,誰就是 landlady。你付的是每月的房更多收起這個地方是她的,你人在她的屋簷底下。房子、樓、地、酒館——名字掛在誰身上,誰就是 landlady。你付的是每月的房租還是吧台上一杯酒的錢,畫面的重點都一樣:門是她開的,位子是她讓你坐的。字面上 land(地)+ lady(女主人),對應的男性說法是 landlord;兩個字共用同一套畫面,只差性別。

Two branches

收租的女主人

這是「地方是她的」最直接的形式:她把空間讓出來,你按期付錢。

female landlord · noun · B1

A woman who owns a room, a building, or a piece of land and lets someone else live in it or use it, in return for money they pay her every week or every month.

女房東

酒館的女主人

同一個「這裡她說了算」的畫面搬進酒館:客人一樣是進到她的地方來,只是待一個晚上而不是一整年。

pub owner · noun · B2

In British English, a woman who owns a pub or manages one for someone else — a pub is a place in Britain where people meet to eat, talk, and have a drink together.

酒館女老闆

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

landladynoun/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/

  • 1

    A female landlord.

    • In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
    • Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。