patroness

As goddess of the arts and crafts, Pallas served as the patroness of artists, artisans, sculptors.

作为工艺品的女神, 雅典娜作为艺术家, 工匠, 雕刻师的守护神.

You had better neglect your relations, than run the risk of offending your patroness.

你最好把亲戚关系看得淡一些.免得担那么大的风险,得罪了你的女施主.

and the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good opinion of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his right as a rector, made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility.

他看到他的女施主地位颇高，便悉心崇拜，备加尊敬；另方面又自命不凡，自以为当上了教士，该有怎样怎样的权利，于是他一身兼有了骄傲自大和谦卑顺从的两重性格。

She was Athena, goddess of wisdom and knowledge and patroness of Athens.

她就是智慧女神雅典娜, 掌管知识,是雅典的保护神.

The image of the Patroness of the Church was wrenched out of the porch centuries ago.

教堂的守护神像早在几百年前就从门廊里搬走了.