每日商务英语 第112期:做小买卖的女人

 basement Betty 在家里做小买卖的女人

 

英文释义 

A woman who operates a small business from herhome. (NOTE: "Betty" is a short form of the commonEnglish female name "Elizabeth")

 

例句 Before she could afford to open a shop, my mother was a basement Betty who made andrepaired women's clothing in our family's tiny, cramped¹ apartment.在有足够的钱开店面之前，我母亲只是在家里做点小买卖，在我家狭小拥挤的房子里给人缝补衣服。

1 cramped   

a.狭窄的

参考例句：

• The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence. 房子十分狭小拥挤，但经纪人却把它说成是小巧别致的住宅。
• working in cramped conditions 在拥挤的环境里工作