mother superior
mother superior — 名詞
1. a senior nun who leads and takes responsibility for all the other nuns living to
女修道院長
管理一群修女的資深修女首長
a senior nun who leads and takes responsibility for all the other nuns living together in one religious house.
Folake knelt before the mother superior to ask permission to leave the convent.
Folake 跪在女修道院長面前，請求允許她離開修道院。
title used with the/a before it
The young nuns obeyed the mother superior without question during morning prayers.
晨禱時，年輕的修女們毫無異議地服從女修道院長。
subject is the leader of a religious house
As mother superior, Élise decided which sisters would teach at the village school.
身為女修道院長，Élise 決定哪些修女要到村裡的學校教書。
role as title before a name
The convent in the mountains was run by a strict but kind mother superior.
山上那座修道院由一位嚴格但仁慈的女修道院長管理。
Camille became mother superior after serving the order faithfully for thirty years.
Camille 忠心服侍這個修會三十年後，成為女修道院長。
become + mother superior for promotion to the role
- strict mother superior
- the convent's mother superior
- become mother superior
用法筆記
Often used as a title directly before or in place of a name, like 'Mother Superior Teresa' or simply 'Mother Superior'. The role exists only within a convent of women, so the subject is always female.