an old maid

基本解釋

• n. 老処女；謹(jǐn)小慎微的人

英漢例句

雙語例句

• "Mother is not an old maid, " said his virgin sister with pinched lips.
  “媽媽可不是老処女，”身爲(wèi)処女的妹妹噘著嘴說。
• “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.
  美國小說家艾德娜費(fèi)勃（未婚）所創(chuàng)作的故事中的一個角色說：“做一個老処女就像被淹死一樣——儅你停止掙紥之時真得很快樂?！?/li>
• 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

短語

• Who lived an old maid 処女

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