spinster 词态变化
复数: spinsters;
spinster 中文词源
spinster 老处女，老姑娘来自 spin,纺织，编织，-ster,表阴性。即纺纱者，后代指老处女，老姑娘，含强烈的暗示意 味。
spinster 英文词源
- spinster
- spinster: see spin
- spinster (n.)
- mid-14c., "female spinner of thread," from Middle English spinnen (see spin) + -stere, feminine suffix (see -ster). Unmarried women were supposed to occupy themselves with spinning, hence the word came to be "the legal designation in England of all unmarried women from a viscount's daughter downward" [Century Dictionary] in documents from 1600s to early 1900s, and by 1719 the word was being used generically for "woman still unmarried and beyond the usual age for it."
Spinster, a terme, or an addition in our Common Law, onely added in Obligations, Euidences, and Writings, vnto maids vnmarried. [John Minsheu, "Ductor in Linguas," 1617]
Strictly in reference to those who spin, spinster also was used of both sexes (compare webster, baxter, brewster) and so a double-feminine form emerged, spinstress "a female spinner" (1640s), which by 1716 also was being used for "maiden lady." Related: Spinsterhood.
spinster 英文释义
- 1. an elderly unmarried woman
- 2. someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
spinster 双语例句
- 1. He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
- 他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧场留给了他未婚的妹妹.
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- 2. There's nothing shameful in being a spinster.
- 当老处女也没什么丢人的,看看皮蒂姑妈.
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- 3. It'sounds like some old spinster with a pleated skirt and frilly blouse.
- 它听起来就像一个穿着镶褶边的衬衫和百褶裙的老处女.
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- 4. A spinster is a bachelor's wife.
- 怨妇乃旷夫之妻.
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- 5. However, some of college's crisis are originated her menopause chaos -- she is an old spinster.
- 但是, 某些学园危机是因为她的更年期混乱引发的 —— 顺便说下她是老处女.
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spinster 实用场景例句
- [不可数名词]For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood.
- 从前，就多数妇女而言，结婚的比独身的更有地位。
牛津词典
- He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
- 他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧场留给了他未婚的妹妹.
《简明英汉词典》
- A spinster is a bachelor's wife.
- 怨妇乃旷夫之妻.
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- It'sounds like some old spinster with a pleated skirt and frilly blouse.
- 它听起来就像一个穿着镶褶边的衬衫和百褶裙的老处女.
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- I do not think Tom actually loves his spinster aunt . Its simply cupboard love.
- 我想,汤姆不是真心关怀他那个老去没嫁的姑母,只是爱她的财产罢了.
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- There's nothing shameful in being a spinster.
- 当老处女也没什么丢人的,看看皮蒂姑妈.
飘（部分）
- " Just my sister in New Mexico, " he volunteered. " But she's a humble spinster nun. "
- “ 我有个妹妹在新墨西哥州, ” 他主动地说. “ 可她是个地位低微的老姑娘修女. ”
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- So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were glittering on the table.
- 她一面说, 一面指着桌子,把那两个发亮的拿破仑指给那老姑娘看.
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- In America law and custom alike is based upon the dream of spinster.
- 在美国,法律与风俗习惯一样,是把基础置于老处女的梦想之上.
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