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，店主是某大款的情妇，她不想让这个咖啡店为他赚钱, 大款又不能把店关了，因为这是他送给情妇的礼物。
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.
她与女所有人贝克夫人关系紧张；校医约翰 · 布赖顿被露西所吸引，但露西却爱上了严肃的保罗·伊曼纽尔教授。
” 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.
范老师问，他们两人之间的沉默已经开始引起饭馆中年老板娘的注意，她坐在柜台后面，打量着几张有食客的餐桌。

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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