prima donna
女主角,首席女演员,骁将,首席执行官
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plural pri·ma don·nas, Italian pri·me don·ne [pree-me -dawn-ne]. /ˈpri mɛ ˈdɔn nɛ/.
- : a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
- : a temperamental person; a person who takes adulation and privileged treatment as a right and reacts with petulance to criticism or inconvenience.
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On one summer lunch hour, Donna Ann Levonuk, 50, lifted a tub of diaper cream priced at $43.98—and then stashed it in her purse.
Hughes, when she was known as Donna Rice, was involved in a steamy scandal involving presidential politics.
Middleton only bridles when asked about the likelihood of marrying his girlfriend, the presenter Donna Air.
Zayas recalled a witness claiming that once "Delle Donna referred to Elvin as a spic."
"When Negron got let go, he got a tape recorder," a source close to the Delle Donna case told me.
The tenor dies; the prima donna appears to do the same, but the libretto consoles you by declaring that she only swoons.
Prima facie, the verdict here is less favorable than in the previous case.
He sang bravura airs with a facility of vocalisation any prima donna might have envied.
Even here the glorious voice of the prima donna floated clear as a silver bell.
The young girl became, thanks to him, the celebrated prima donna of the Fenice theatre, at Venice in 1820.