an old maid

基本解釋

• n. 老處女；謹(jǐn)小慎微的人

英漢例句

雙語(yǔ)例句

• "Mother is not an old maid, " said his virgin sister with pinched lips.
  “媽媽可不是老處女，”身為處女的妹妹噘著嘴說(shuō)。
• “Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “l(fā)ike death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
  美國(guó)小說(shuō)家艾德娜費(fèi)勃（未婚）所創(chuàng)作的故事中的一個(gè)角色說(shuō)：“做一個(gè)老處女就像被淹死一樣——當(dāng)你停止掙扎之時(shí)真得很快樂(lè)。”
• She was not, after all, an old maid. No, she was that positive thing, an eternal virgin.
  畢竟她可不是老姑娘；相反，她是那種積極的存在，一位永保貞潔的女子。

權(quán)威例句

• This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
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• Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
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詞組短語(yǔ)

短語(yǔ)

• Who lived an old maid 處女

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