wear the pants
基本解釋
- 掌權(quán)當(dāng)家（尤指婦女）
英漢例句
- In China, those who wear the pants in the family are mostly women.
在中國，很多當(dāng)家的都是女人。 - Julie usually does wear the pants in our family, to use a clothing metaphor.
朱莉通常負(fù)責(zé)我們?nèi)胰舜┑难澴?，也就是暗指所有衣物?/li> - I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. —— Whitney Houston.
即使是生活在男人的世界里我也喜歡做女人。畢竟，男人不能穿裙子，但是我們能穿褲子?！?惠特尼·休斯頓。 - People wear pants to cover the lower part of their bodies.
- It was a convoluted expression of the classic view of sexual differences: women did not wear the pants in the family-or anywhere else, for that matter.
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