In this alternate version of their life, Fiona has gone from housewife to heroine as leader of the ogre resistance fighters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

So you get this image of her as this stereotypical '50s housewife going to Tupperware parties.

从这里你能看到一个典型的去特百惠派对的50年代,家庭主妇的形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Readymade, factory-made cloth for a woman, a housewife, who isn't making her own cloth anymore.

他们向家庭主妇们推销工厂生产的服装,她们再不用手工自制衣服了

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

"She was a housewife but she took pride in everything that she did.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In the 1960s, to have a protagonist go into the world and discover this incredibly complex set of patterns, and to have that protagonist be a housewife, was very much playing against type.

在60年代让一个主角深入世界,去探索它难以置信的复杂，而且将其设置为一个家庭主妇，是与常规背道而驰的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选