an old maid
基本解释
- n. 老处女；谨小慎微的人
英汉例句
- "Mother is not an old maid, " said his virgin sister with pinched lips.
“妈妈可不是老处女，”身为处女的妹妹噘着嘴说。 - “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。” - She was not, after all, an old maid. No, she was that positive thing, an eternal virgin.
毕竟她可不是老姑娘；相反，她是那种积极的存在，一位永保贞洁的女子。 - This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
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