我们有一间小小的偏房，里面有一张垂头弯腰的沙发和一台电视机。

We had a small side room with a slouchy couch and a television set.

大太太通常有权力支使偏房做事，她的孩子相对于小太太的孩子们来说也享有优待。

The first wife traditionally had the right to order the secondary wives around and her children were given precedence over the other children.

皇帝和军阀都有很多妾，也就是小老婆，而他们的继承人通常也不是他们正房夫人的长子，有时候是他们偏房某位妾所生的能力出众的儿子。

Emperors and warlords often had numerous concubines as well as wives.Their successors were often not the first son from their first wife but sometimes their most able son from a concubine.