spinster

      英['sp?nst?] 美['sp?nst?]
      • n. 老姑娘;未婚女人

      詞態變化


      復數:?spinsters;

      中文詞源


      spinster 老處女,老姑娘

      來自 spin,紡織,編織,-ster,表陰性。即紡紗者,后代指老處女,老姑娘,含強烈的暗示意 味。

      英文詞源


      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.

      雙語例句


      1. He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
      他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧場留給了他未婚的妹妹.

      來自《簡明英漢詞典》

      2. There's nothing shameful in being a spinster.
      當老處女也沒什么丟人的,看看皮蒂姑媽.

      來自飄(部分)

      3. It'sounds like some old spinster with a pleated skirt and frilly blouse.
      它聽起來就像一個穿著鑲褶邊的襯衫和百褶裙的老處女.

      來自互聯網

      4. A spinster is a bachelor's wife.
      怨婦乃曠夫之妻.

      來自互聯網

      5. However, some of college's crisis are originated her menopause chaos -- she is an old spinster.
      但是, 某些學園危機是因為她的更年期混亂引發的 —— 順便說下她是老處女.

      來自互聯網


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