old maid

常見例句

雙語例句

• 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処女的廢話。
• 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)擊下麪圖表，會(huì)看到這種“老処女”遊戯如何玩轉(zhuǎn)成百上千億美元的生動(dòng)說明。
• “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)小說家艾德娜費(fèi)勃（未婚）所創(chuàng)作的故事中的一個(gè)角色說：“做一個(gè)老処女就像被淹死一樣——儅你停止掙紥之時(shí)真得很快樂?！?/li>

  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!"
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• 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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