old maid

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌəʊld ˈmeɪd]
• 美式音标 [ˌoʊld ˈmeɪd]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 老处女；谨小慎微的人

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
  半点都不——假如她想的是这种老处女的废话。
• Click on the chart below for an animated explanation of how this game of Old Maid is played with hundreds of billions of dollars.
  点击下面图表，会看到这种“老处女”游戏如何玩转成百上千亿美元的生动说明。
• “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.
  美国小说家艾德娜费勃（未婚）所创作的故事中的一个角色说：“做一个老处女就像被淹死一样——当你停止挣扎之时真得很快乐。”

原声例句

• 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.

权威例句

• "Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
  NPR: Answers to the John Huston 'Quotable' Quiz
• This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
  FORBES: Managing Money
• Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
  FORBES: CFTC's Intrade Shutdown: Don't They Have Better Things To Mither About?

词组短语

短语

• old d maid 长春花
• Bicycle Old Maid 单车扑克之抽对儿;抽对儿
• an old maid 老处女
• Dithering Old Maid 抖动老姑娘
• The Old Maid 老处女

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a woman who is not married or has not had a sexual relationship and is not now young

柯林斯英英字典

• People sometimes refer to an old or middle-aged woman as an old maid when she has never married and they think that it is unlikely that she ever will marry. This use could cause offence.

专业释义

体育

• “老处女”(即互相抽牌配对子纸牌游戏)