old maid
常见例句
- Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
半點都不——假如她想的是這種老処女的廢話。 - Click on the chart below for an animated explanation of how this game of Old Maid is played with hundreds of billions of dollars.
點擊下麪圖表,會看到這種“老処女”遊戯如何玩轉成百上千億美元的生動說明。 - “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。” - 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.
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