an old maid
基本解释
- n. 老処女；謹小慎微的人
英汉例句
- "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 “like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
美國小說家艾德娜費勃（未婚）所創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。” - 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。 - This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
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