padrone

/puh-droh-nee, -ney; Italian pah-draw-ne/US // pəˈdroʊ ni, -neɪ; Italian pɑˈdrɔ nɛ //UK // (pəˈdrəʊnɪ) //

掌握,主人,主,硕士

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural pa·dro·nes [puh-droh-neez, -neyz], /pəˈdroʊ niz, -neɪz/, Italian pa·dro·ni [pah-draw-nee]. /pɑˈdrɔ ni/.
- : a master; boss.
- : an employer, especially of immigrant laborers, who provides communal housing and eating arrangements, controls the allocation of pay, etc., in a manner that exploits the workers.
- : an innkeeper.

Zelphine has just been talking to the padrone, who speaks excellent English, about the excursion to-morrow.
The padrone asks us, in case we decide to drive, whether we will give a seat in our carriage to the odd number.
Their spirit of mutual helpfulness saved them from padrone, "banker," and Black Hand.
It seems that sometimes, though rarely, it pleases them to pretend to believe that their padrone has displeased them.
A waif like himself, a lost baby whom he found on the road being cruelly beaten by a brute of an Italian padrone.