old maid
常见例句
- 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.
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