The headmistress spoke at some (ie considerable) length. (女)校长讲话讲了好一会儿.
They voted her their headmistress. 他们选她做校长。
The deputy headmistress, was sitting dead at her desk. Her glasses were still on. 副校长已经死在座位上了,还戴着她的眼镜。
headmistress
[ noun ] a woman headmaster <noun.person>
Mavis Hunter, deputy headmistress of St. Mary's School at Calne, said Miss Jagger and another 16-year-old at the all-girls school were reported missing from their dormitory in the early hours Wednesday.
Joan Clanchy, headmistress of the North London Collegiate School, has had fame thrust upon her in the past two years.
It is all very well to have Kenneth Clarke, Chris Patten, Malcolm Rifkind and other old political chums (and occasionally foes, as with Ken Livingstone) reminiscing about the days when headmistress Maggie terrorised the corridors of power.
The school that she is headmistress of lies next to a farm where a volcanic eruption has mixed eggs, milk and sugar-beet into a lake of lumpy custard, the lumps being diamonds.