Dowager

Dame Maggie Smith & Kelly Macdonald!!!









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n. (名詞 noun)[C]



          1.    (繼承財產、爵位的孀居)貴婦

                      the queen dowager

                      王太后

          2.    【口】老年貴婦人



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–noun 

1. a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, esp. the widow of a king, duke, etc. 

(often used as an additional title to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.): a [queen] dowager; an [empress] dowager. [em-pris] 皇后;女皇

2. an elderly woman of stately dignity, esp. one of elevated social position: a wealthy dowager.  



–adjective

 3. noting, pertaining to, 

or 

characteristic of a dowager: the dowager [duchess]; to prefer a dowager style of [dress]. 





　

And Maggie Smith plays the dowager Lady Gresham, one of those minor titled figures who believe they've been charged by heaven to pass judgment on everyone in the neighborhood, especially anyone who is young and has a breath of feeling.



 　

Continuing his 1970s recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter Bogdanovich turned to the literary costume drama with an adaptation of the Henry James novella Daisy Miller.【義】短篇故事,中篇小說



At a Swiss spa, upper-class expatriate American Frederick Winterbourne meets pretty, nouveau riche flirt Daisy Miller; her bratty, xenophobic little brother Randolph; and her [trem]ulous, [nattering] mother. 



Despite warnings from his dowager [aunt] about Daisy's recklessness with men, Winterbourne finds himself drawn to her.





nubile 

spinster harridan

bequeath besot expiate

matron









　

Sylvia is being divorced by Daniel, despite her illusion that theirs is a happy marriage. Sylvia's lesbian daughter Allegra (Maggie Grace), also has a romantic crisis going and is closeted from her mother, though not from us. Circling in Prudie's life is her mother, an ex-hippie pothead who is not a bit like Austen's formidable dowagers, except that she meddles.