proprietress

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My theory is that the proprietress is a rich man’s mistress. She does not want the shop to make money for him, and he cannot close it, because it was his present to her.
我的理解是，店主是某大款的情婦，她不想讓這個(gè)咖啡店?duì)?wèi)他賺錢, 大款又不能把店關(guān)了，因爲(wèi)這是他送給情婦的禮物。
She has a strained relationship with the proprietress, Madame Beck; the school doctor, John Bretton, is attracted to her, but Lucy loses her heart to the martinet professor, Paul Emanuel.
她與女所有人貝尅夫人關(guān)系緊張；校毉約翰 · 佈賴頓被露西所吸引，但露西卻愛上了嚴(yán)肅的保羅·伊曼紐爾教授。
” Teacher Fei asked when the silence between them began to attract prying glances from the middle-aged proprietress of the diner, who sat behind the counter and studied the few occupied tables.
範(fàn)老師問，他們兩人之間的沉默已經(jīng)開始引起飯館中年老板娘的注意，她坐在櫃臺(tái)後麪，打量著幾張有食客的餐桌。

One is the Wakana Hotel, whose elegant proprietress has made a point of attending to writers struggling to meet a deadline.
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It was an olive branch to his by-then estranged friend and a plea for him to return to the yellow house, where they had once depicted this middle-aged proprietress of a local cafe.
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