英语释义

1. a woman who is a porter: such as

2. a doorkeeper in a convent or apartment building

3. charwoman

片语

office girl女勤杂工；小妹，女工友

英汉例句

• All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the distance and crying.

  他忽然听到背后有声音，那看门的妇人，巴塔贡，跟了上来，在远处举起一个拳头喊着说。

• The portress had 「done up」 his room; only she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened by the fire.

  不过她已从灰里拾起那根棍子的两个铁斗和那烧乌了的值四十个苏的钱，干干凈凈地把它们放在桌上了。

• The portress said to her husband: — 「The good man upstairs yonder does not get up, he no longer eats, he will not last long.」

  看门的对她丈夫说：「上面的老人不起床了，也不吃东西，他活不多久了。」

• The portress told me that he could not come to-day.

  那看门的大妈说他今天不能来。

• Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the infirmary soon.

  散普丽斯姆姆派了一个侍女去找那看守厂门的妇人，问她马德兰先生回来了没有，会不会立即到疗养室来。

• The old portress who had served him was among the number.

  服侍过他的那个老看门婆便是其中之一。

• The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she grumbled

  看门的女人用一把旧刀，把门前被她称作是她的铺路石石缝里长出的青草除去，一边除一边嘟囔着

• He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones.

  他的话刚说完，楼梯下已闹得一片响，他听见许多人的脚步，走上楼来，又听见那看门老妇人用她那最高最锐的嗓子说。