virgin

1. N-COUNT A virgin is someone, especially a woman or girl, who has never had sex. 處女

I was a virgin until I was thirty years old. 我到30歲時(shí)還是個(gè)處女。

2. ADJ You use virgin to describe something such as land that has never been used or spoiled. (土地等) 未使用過(guò)的

Within 40 years there will be no virgin forest left. 過(guò)不了40年原始森林將所剩無(wú)幾。

3. PHRASE If you say that a situation is virgin territory, you mean that you have no experience of it and it is completely new for you. 處女地; 全新領(lǐng)域

The World Cup is virgin territory for Ecuador. 世界杯對(duì)厄瓜多爾來(lái)說(shuō)尚為一片全新的領(lǐng)域。

4. N-COUNT You can use virgin to describe someone who has never done or used a particular thing before. 生手

Until he appeared in "In the Line of Fire" Malkovich had been an action-movie virgin. 在出演《火線》之前，馬爾科維奇還是一個(gè)動(dòng)作片的生手。