每日商務英語 第112期:做小買賣的女人

basement Betty 在家裏做小買賣的女人

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英文釋義

A woman who operates a small business from her home. (NOTE: "Betty" is a short form of the common English female name "Elizabeth")

例句

Before she could afford to open a shop, my mother was a basement Betty who made and repaired women's clothing in our family's tiny, cramped apartment.

在有足夠的錢開店面之前，我母親只是在家裏做點小買賣，在我家狹小擁擠的房子裏給人縫補衣服。