查询词典 an old maid

But then, to be an old maid at last, like miss bates!

"但是那会像贝茨小姐一样，最后变成个老小姐的。"

Being an old maid is like death by drowne, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

当一个老处女，好比溺水而死，到了停止挣扎之后，就会有那真正快乐的感觉了。

The elder man, though not by any manner of means an old maid or a prude, said it was nothing short of a crying scandal that ought to be put a stop to instanter to say that women of that stamp (quite apart from any oldmaidish squeamishness on the subject), a necessary evil, w ere not licensed and medically inspected by the proper authorities, a thing, he could truthfully state, he, as a paterfamilias , was a stalwart advocate of from the very first start.

155那个年长的人尽管并不是个老处女或假正经，却说道：这号女人（在这个问题上，他丝毫不曾囿于老处女式的洁癖）是无法避免的危害，可是有关当局既不发给她们执照，又不要求她们做体检，真是可耻极了，必须即刻加以纠正。说实在的，关于这一问题，自己作为一家之父，从一开始就坚决主张这么做。

There an old maid-servant was scolding a young girl who had run in breathless from the cold outside.

那里有一个老女仆对从奴仆那里跑来的婢女嘟嘟嚷嚷，户外的寒气噎得她喘不过气来。

Because I'm an old maid.

因为我是个老女仆

It's lucky for me my daughter is an old maid.

我真幸运，我的女儿是个老处女。

She just got tired of waiting and was afraid she'd be an old maid and...

她只是等的有点不耐烦了，她担心自己是个老处女而且。。。

I don't wanna end up an old maid.

我不想当老处女。

But still, you will be an old maid!

不过，你仍然还变成个老处女的！

This battle of wits to anticipate the basis of conventional valuation a few months hence, rather than the prospective yield of an investment over a long term of years, does not even require gulls amongst the public to feed the maws of the professional;— it can be played by professionals amongst themselves. Nor is it necessary that anyone should keep his simple faith in the conventional basis of valuation having any genuine long-term validity.

股市类似 Snap ， Old Maid ， Musical Chairs 这种游戏，这些游戏是在适当时刻喊「 Snap 」，在游戏还未结束前将「 Old Maid 」传给旁边的人，在音乐停止时占到椅子就赢的「 Musical Chairs 」，在游戏的时候，大家心知肚明「 Old Maid 」一手传一手，也知道音乐停止时一定有人占不到位置，但充满乐趣。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失