mistress

noun

1. a woman master who directs the work of others

2. an adulterous woman
a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

Synonym: kept womanfancy woman

3. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

Synonym: schoolmarmschoolma'amschoolmistress

1. 情妇
A married man's mistress is a woman who is not his wife and with whom he is having a sexual relationship.

mistress什么意思

e.g. She was his mistress for three years...
她曾做过他3年的情妇。
e.g. He has a wife and a mistress.
他有妻子，还有一个情妇。

2. 女教师
A mistress is a female teacher.

e.g. My history mistress was extremely helpful.
教我历史的那位女老师特别乐于助人。

3. 女主人
A servant's mistress is the woman that he or she works for.

e.g. It must be really bad, for her to ignore a summons from her mistress!
她居然不听女主人的使唤，实在是太不像话了！

4. (狗的)女主人
A dog's mistress is the woman or girl who owns it.

e.g. The huge wolfhound danced in circles around his mistress.
这条大狼犬围着女主人蹦蹦跳跳地绕圈子。

5. 绝对控制…的女人；主宰…的女人
If a woman is mistress of a situation, she has complete control over it.

e.g. She had always been mistress of her own destiny.
她总是能够掌握自己的命运。

6. (精通某项活动的)女能手，女行家
If you say that a woman is a mistress of a particular activity, you mean that she is very skilled at it.

e.g. She is a mistress of disguise.
她是伪装的高手。
e.g. ...another winner from the mistress of historical romance.
来自这位历史爱情小说知名女作家又一部必定大受欢迎的作品

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1. 情妇：在中国没有所谓的情人(lover),只有情妇(Mistress). 情人是精神上的、柏拉图式的,就像柴可夫斯基与梅茜夫人,一辈子只是擦肩而过一次,却默默地为对方付出一切. 情人有高尚的情操,是有人格的. 但在目前的中国,

2. 女主人：当家的女主人(mistress)逐渐(gradually) 从第一阶段平息(subsiding)到了第二阶段,看看这个家. 一个每周8块钱带家具的房子. 这不全是非言语所能形容(beggar description),但确实是对这家徒四壁样子(mendicancy squad)描述的一部分.