old maid
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌəʊld ˈmeɪd]
- 美式音标 [ˌoʊld ˈmeɪd]
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- 美式发音
基本解释
- 老处女;谨小慎微的人
英汉例句
- Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
半点都不——假如她想的是这种老处女的废话。 - Click on the chart below for an animated explanation of how this game of Old Maid is played with hundreds of billions of dollars.
点击下面图表,会看到这种“老处女”游戏如何玩转成百上千亿美元的生动说明。 - “Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
美国小说家艾德娜费勃(未婚)所创作的故事中的一个角色说:“做一个老处女就像被淹死一样——当你停止挣扎之时真得很快乐。” - Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.
- "Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
NPR: Answers to the John Huston 'Quotable' Quiz - This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
FORBES: Managing Money - Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
FORBES: CFTC's Intrade Shutdown: Don't They Have Better Things To Mither About?
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- old d maid 长春花
- Bicycle Old Maid 单车扑克之抽对儿;抽对儿
- an old maid 老处女
- Dithering Old Maid 抖动老姑娘
- The Old Maid 老处女
短语
英英字典
- a woman who is not married or has not had a sexual relationship and is not now young
- People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence.
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专业释义
- “老处女”(即互相抽牌配对子纸牌游戏)