spinster

单词spinster

基本解释

n.: 老处女；老姑娘
adj.: 未婚的
网络: 未婚女人；纺织女工；未婚女子

权威解释

• 老处女；老姑娘:

  a woman who is not married, especially an older woman who is not likely to marry

英汉解释

• 未婚的

• 未婚女子

• 〔社〕未婚子女

• 〔美国〕纺纱妇女

• (尤指中年的)未婚女人,老处女

词性分析

• 复数：spinsters

例句

• These statements can take the form of two equal sides, like an equation, or the statement "A spinster is female and unmarried" .

  对这些知识的叙述表现为一种两边等价的形式，像一个方程，如“‘spinster’就是未婚女子”。

• A childless single woman of a certain age is no longer automatically perceived as a barren spinster.

  没有子女的大龄女性不再被习惯性地视为不育的老处女。

• Any other gay man of his time, raised by three spinster aunts in small-town Ohio, might well have stayed in self-loathing denial for ever.

  史都华由三个未出阁的姑母抚养长大，成长于俄亥俄的小镇上，在那个年代，像他这种成长背景的男同志总在自我厌恶中否认自己的性向。

• You"re allowed to step outside of that box of the classical spinster or working girl.

  这样你就能跳出传统的老处女或女强人的界限。

• He was blacksmith, carpenter, tinsmith, brewer and veterinary all rolled into one, as his wife was spinster, weaver and doctor.

  他集铁匠、木匠、白铁匠、啤酒酿造者和兽医于一身。他的妻子既是纺纱工、织布工，又是医生。

• "Let us see, father, " said the old spinster.

  “先看看再说吧，爸。”那老姑娘说。

• Spinster was almost like a professional title similar to baker or tailor.

  “spinsters”（纺纱者）差不多是一个专业头衔，类似于面包师或裁缝。

• There is always the bachelor uncle or the spinster aunt living with a close friend.

  在某些国度里，总是会存在一些单身汉舅舅或者老姑婆阿姨，他们与亲密的朋友住在一起。

• that are generally run by two spinster sisters. Gothic white script above the premises proclaimed: Black an White Tea Room.

  餐厅由一对未婚的老姐妹经营，墙上有一行哥德式的字体写着：“黑白茶室”。

• "Just my sister in New Mexico, " he volunteered. "But she"s a humble spinster nun. "

  “我只有一个姐姐在新墨西哥州，”他主动说道。“不过，他是个地位卑微的修女，一个老处女。”