"I wonder if you have anything to say, " says the Dame. 女士说:"我想知道你是否有什麽话要说。"
He was looking for a dame to shack up with when the police picked him up. 他正在找女人鬼混的时候,警察把他逮住了。
Elizabeth have no time for small chat with other dame. 伊莉莎白没有时间与别的少女们闲聊。
dame
[ noun ]
informal terms for a (young) woman
<noun.person>
a woman of refinement
<noun.person> a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady
Dame \Dame\ (d[=a]m), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See {Tame}, and cf. {Dam} a mother, {Dan}, {Danger}, {Dungeon}, {Dominie}, {Don}, n., {Duenna}.] 1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. --Shak.
2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
In the dame's classes at the village school. --Emerson.
3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Sybil Thorndike was made a dame in 1931 in the midst of a long and illustrious career in Shakespearean roles.
As she approaches her 90th birthday, grande dame of the theater, Helen Hayes, has some stories to tell.
Author V.S. Naipaul was given knighthod, and Maggie Smith was made a dame commander in honors announced today.
Une bonne femme denotes a total lack of sophistication, namely a woman down at heel and rather vulgar. Mrs Thatcher may well have seen herself as the sole grande dame as she assumed the airs of an absolutist monarch.
"I spotted this chic, divine-looking dame.
I never saw her, but understood a dame to be some sort of matriarchal presence prevailing at each of the 25 constituent houses of the school.