正房 meaning in English
1.(上房) principal room (in a courtyard, usu. facing south)
2.(大老婆) legal wife
Examples
- The priests wife , with smiling dimples on her rosy face , followed to show him the room
牧师太太绯红的面颊上绽开两个酒窝，随他走进正房。 - In the private room of the family , he heard the wailing of children , the heartrending sobs of a woman , and the furious , husky shouting of ferapontov
在店主的正房里听见有个孩子的哭声，一个妇女撕肝裂肺的号啕声，费拉蓬托夫嘶哑的愤怒的尖叫声。 - Alpatitch nodded his head , apparently in approval at those words ; and not caring to hear more he went towards the door on the opposite side leading to the room in which his purchases had been left
阿尔帕特奇听到这番话后，好像是赞同地点了点头，但又不想再听下去，便向对面店主正房的门口走去，因为他买的东西放在这里。 - The vip suite room is also the principle room of the whole quadrangles . it s located at the north side and facing the south . the bed - like compartment which was carved with the pattern of " peonies " separates the room into three functional areas
贵宾房，亦即正房，是整个四合院中最豪华也是最尊贵的房间，位于院落的北部，座北朝南，雕有“富贵牡丹”的碧纱橱将房间分为三个功能区。 - During the second world war , the flying tigers - a group of american pilots voluntarily helping china in fighting the japanese aggression - built the basha airport in the lijiang area to implement what is known to historians as the " hump operation .
正房堂屋，两旁侧室，走廊宽敞，天井宏亮，门窗多精雕细刻花鸟图案，门楼修得富丽堂皇。当年徐霞客曾描写大研“民居群落，瓦屋栉比” ， “其宫室之丽，拟于王者.