basement Betty 在家里做小買賣的女人
A woman who operates a small business from her home. (NOTE: "Betty" is a short form of the common English female name "Elizabeth")
Before she could afford to open a shop, my mother was a basement Betty who made and repaired women's clothing in our family's tiny, cramped apartment.
在有足夠的錢開(kāi)店面之前,我母親只是在家里做點(diǎn)小買賣,在我家狹小擁擠的房子里給人縫補(bǔ)衣服。