spinsterhood
基本解释
- n.独身；未婚
英汉例句
- She had stiffened into a pronounced spinsterhood .
她古板得成了十足的老处女。 - The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.
对于她这种古怪的老姑娘，外面的世界早已经有了固定的成见。 - This novel celebrates the honourable estate of spinsterhood and the tentative emergence of suburban Australian society.
ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia - Once factors such as spinsterhood and early hysterectomy were eliminated from the statistics, it became clear that the centenarians were three times more likely to have given birth to at least one child in their 40s than those who had then gone on to live only an average lifespan.
ECONOMIST: Ageing
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- the state or time of being a spinster (= a woman (usually an older woman) who is not married)