每日商务英语 第112期:做小买卖的女人
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：每日商务英语
英语课
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, cramped 1 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。
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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
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