spinster

英 ['spɪnstə] 美['spɪnstɚ]

英英释义实用场景例句

反义词

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复数: spinsters;

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: 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.

[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。

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.

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.

" 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. ”

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.

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.