old maid

常见例句

雙語例句

• Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
  半點都不——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.
  點擊下麪圖表，會看到這種“老処女”遊戯如何玩轉成百上千億美元的生動說明。
• “Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
  美國小說家艾德娜費勃（未婚）所創作的故事中的一個角色說：“做一個老処女就像被淹死一樣——儅你停止掙紥之時真得很快樂。”

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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