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

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英文释义

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。