英式酒館的老闆
同樣是「這個地方是他的」，只是他不出租房間，而是開門讓大家進來喝一杯、坐一晚。英國的 pub 在社區裡像客廳，老闆的角色也接近主人。
pub owner (BrE) · noun · B2
In British English, a man who owns or manages a pub — a place where people meet to eat, talk, and gather.
酒館老闆
核心畫面
Picture the man who holds the keys to a place other people use: he owns the room, the flat, the land, and others pay him to be there. In Britain the same word covers the man behind the bar of a pub — the place is his, and everyone else is a guest in it.
可以想成：一個握著鑰匙的人——房間、公寓、那塊地是他的，別人付錢才能待在裡面。在英國，同一個字也用在酒館吧檯後面那位…更多收起
可以想成：一個握著鑰匙的人——房間、公寓、那塊地是他的，別人付錢才能待在裡面。在英國，同一個字也用在酒館吧檯後面那位老闆身上：那個地方是他的，其他人都是客人。這個字本身指男性，女性是 landlady。From the picture
Also in this word
property owner · noun · B1
A man who owns a room, building, or piece of land and lets other people use it for money.
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原始詞典資料4 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。
landlordnoun/ˈlænd.lɔːd/
- 1
A person that leases real property; a lessor.
- Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
- 2
The owner or manager of a public house.
- When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.
- 3
slanghobbieslifestylesportsA shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
- the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
landlordverb/ˈlænd.lɔːd/
- 1
rareTo lease real property; to act as a lessor.
- All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.
- cannot admit realization of realities without admitting a changed view of the world she landlords.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。