老太爷 [
lǎo tài yé]
elderly gentleman
your father
my father-in-law
- 老太爷的言传身教早已使他儿子获益无穷。
The son HAD well profited by the precept and example of the father. - 他上岸时没戴墨晶眼镜,我留心看他眼睛,白多黑少,是个淫邪之相,我小时候听我老太爷讲过好多。
When he came ashore without his dark glasses on, I took a good look at his eyes, which have more white than black -the sign of debauchery. I often heard my father say that when I was little. - 只有老太爷常坐的一个蒲团却找来找去不见。四小姐没有办法,只好将就着趺坐在沙发上。
Having failed to find her father's prayer-cushion, she had no alternative but to make do with sitting on a sofa with her legs tucked under her.