old maid

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

• 英式音標(biāo) [???ld ?me?d]
• 美式音標(biāo) [?o?ld ?me?d]
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基本解釋

• 老處女；謹(jǐn)小慎微的人

同根派生

• old maid相關(guān)詞

英漢例句

雙語(yǔ)例句

• Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
  半點(diǎn)都不——假如她想的是這種老處女的廢話。
• 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(diǎn)擊下面圖表，會(huì)看到這種“老處女”游戲如何玩轉(zhuǎn)成百上千億美元的生動(dòng)說(shuō)明。
• “Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “l(fā)ike death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
  美國(guó)小說(shuō)家艾德娜費(fèi)勃（未婚）所創(chuàng)作的故事中的一個(gè)角色說(shuō)：“做一個(gè)老處女就像被淹死一樣——當(dāng)你停止掙扎之時(shí)真得很快樂(lè)。”

原聲例句

• 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.

權(quán)威例句

• "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.
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• 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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詞組短語(yǔ)

短語(yǔ)

• old d maid 長(zhǎng)春花
• Bicycle Old Maid 單車撲克之抽對(duì)兒;抽對(duì)兒
• an old maid 老處女
• Dithering Old Maid 抖動(dòng)老姑娘
• The Old Maid 老處女

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a woman who is not married or has not had a sexual relationship and is not now young

柯林斯英英字典

• People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence.

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專業(yè)釋義

體育

• “老處女”(即互相抽牌配對(duì)子紙牌游戲)