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spinster
时间: 2025-02-10 15:48:57
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英 [ˈspɪnstə]

n.(视为超过婚龄的)老姑娘,老处女;未婚妇女;老处女;纺纱女;

双语例句
  • In 1700, a spinster with a pedal-driven spinning wheel might take 200 hours to produce a pound of yarn.

    在1700年,一位拥有踏板驱动的纺车的未婚的老女人可能需要200个小时才能生产出一磅纱线。

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

    “先看看再说吧,爸。”那老姑娘说。

  • As an old spinster, she is lonely, sensitive and easily hurt.

    她是个老姑娘,孤独、敏感,很容易受得伤害。

  • 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。

  • 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 an acid portrait of Miss Ophelia, a squeamish New England spinster.

    还有一幅奥非利亚小姐的尖酸性格的写照,这是一个诸般挑剔的新英格兰老小姐。

  • I don't think Tom actually loves his spinster aunt. It's simply cupboard love.

    我认为汤姆不会真的关心他未婚的姑母,而只是别有所图的爱。

  • I've been worried since I first met you that you might end up being a spinster.

    我第一次见到你时曾经担心过你会不会变成个老姑婆。

  • 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。

  • 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。收藏。

  • In 1700 a spinster with a pedal-driven spinning wheel might take 200 hours to produce a pound of yarn.

    在1700年,一个未婚的老女人用一个脚踏板驱动的纺织机或许需要200小时来生产1磅的纱线。

  • A middle-aged spinster, she had run Sir Claud 's house for him ever since his wife died some years earlier.

    她是个中年妇女,从他妻子死后,一直由她来管理家务。

  • Did you ever hear the one about the spinster found dead in her pink bathrobe, surrounded by golden retriever puppies?

    你听说过那个裹着粉红浴袍老姑娘吗?

  • The house next below ours was that of an elderly English couples named Childs and their spinster daughter Ethel.

    我们家后面第二家是一对年长的来自英国的柴尔兹(Childs)夫妇和他们的老姑娘埃塞尔(ethel)。

  • There is an acid portrait of Miss Ophelia, a squeamish New England spinster who does not like to have Negroes touch her.

    还有一幅奥非利亚小姐的尖酸性格的写照,这是一个诸般挑剔的新英格兰老小姐,她不让黑人碰她一下。

  • 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。

  • 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。

  • In 1700 a spinster with a pedal-driven spinning wheel might take 200 hours to produce a pound of yarn. By the 1820s it would take her around an hour.

    在1700年,一个纺纱者用踏板驱动的纺车生产一磅纱线需要花费200小时,而到19世纪20年代,只需要差不多1个小时就能完成。

  • Spinster Austrian chamber length agency younger Park, in the heart of the temptation, but the married man's Park boss chief of the agency because of trouble.

    未婚的奥地利室长度代理小公园,在诱惑人心,但已婚男子的公园的机构老板总因为麻烦。

  • When she died as a spinster in 1817, only four of her six novels had been published, all anonymous and she eared a grand total of 648.65 pounds from her books.

    在1987年她过世的时候,还是个末婚女子,她的六部小说只有四部已经出版,并且全部是匿名的,她只挣到了共648.65英镑,这就是她小说的全部酬劳。

  • The Piano Teacher is based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek about a spinster piano teacher, who lives with her overbearing mother, and is seduced by her pupil.

    该片是根据阿尔弗雷德-杰林奈克小说改变而成的,讲的是终生未嫁、一直和专横的母亲生活在一起的钢琴教师被学生诱惑的故事。

  • There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the presence of M. Gillenormand.

    在这家人里,除了那个老姑娘和那老头以外,还有一个小孩,一个在吉诺曼先生面前便会发抖沉默的小男孩。

  • Scottish spinster Susan Boyle shot to global stardom after she was discovered last year on the "Britain's Got Talent" television show with her performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Miserables".

    去年,来自苏格兰的单身大妈苏珊•博伊尔在《英国达人》电视选秀节目中以《悲惨世界》中的一首《我曾有梦》红遍全球。

词根词缀
spin

纺织,编织

spin

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