A useful picture: the woman whose name is on the place — she owns the roof you are sitting under, and you are there on her terms. Whether you pay rent every month or just pay for a drink at her bar, the place is hers and you are the one who came in.
這個地方是她的，你人在她的屋簷底下。房子、樓、地、酒館——名字掛在誰身上，誰就是 landlady。你付的是每月的房租還是吧台上一杯酒的錢，畫面的重點都一樣：門是她開的，位子是她讓你坐的。字面上 land（地）+ lady（女主人），對應的男性說法是 landlord；兩個字共用同一套畫面，只差性別。
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
landladynoun/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/
- 1
A female landlord.
- In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
- Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。