old maid

noun

1. 老姑娘；老处女
   a woman who has never married and is now no longer young

1. N-COUNT 老处女，老姑娘（可能具冒犯意味）
   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.
   1. Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
      亚历克丝认为自己是个老姑娘的想法还太早了点。

1. Alex is too young to be already thinking of herself as an old maid.
   亚历克丝认为自己是个老姑娘的想法还太早了点。
2. Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare.
   我说，吉英马上就要变成一个老处女了。
3. The term is synonymous with old maid.
   这个词与老处女同义。
4. "Mother is not an old maid," said his virgin sister with pinched lips.
   “妈妈可不是老处女，”身为处女的妹妹噘着嘴说。
5. My father already thinks I'm an old maid.
   我老爸已经觉得我是个老女孩了。
6. Bachelor's wives and old maid 'children is always perfect.
   王老五的老婆和老处女的孩子，无一不十全十美。英迪亚已完全是一副老处女的样子了。
7. I hope I soon meet somebody I want to marry, otherwise I'll finish up an old maid.
   我希望我很快会遇上个心上人与其成婚，不然的话我就成老处女了。
8. The ggency gave me this address for the old maid.
   前女仆的地址是中介给我的。
9. When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
   当家中有一个老处女，就不需要看门狗了。
10. 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。
11. I'll try my prentice hand as an old maid in your family.
    我开始在您家里学习老处女的行当。
12. Remember you released two thousand palace maids? My old maid has two boys now, she is so happy.
    您还记得您遣送两千宫女回家吧？我过去的侍女已经有两个孩子了，尽享天伦之乐。
13. An old maid has one consolation: she can never be a widow no matter who dies.
    老处女有一则安慰：不管是谁死掉也好，她也决不会当寡妇。
14. His elder sister is an old maid.
    他的姐姐是位老处女。
15. It is going to be difficult to see who has the Old Maid card.
    要看出谁的手中有老处女卡片很难，只有时间能告诉我们。
16. She is so touchy about everything! I just can not take all her twisted old maid notion.
    她对什么事情都容易生气！我就是无法忍受她那偏执的老处女脾气。
17. No, no.i'm an old maid schoolteacher!
    没有，我只不过是个教师，老太太了！
18. Chicago family had as their guest a prim old maid from a small town in the East.
    一个东部小镇上的老处女来到芝加哥一户人家作客。
19. 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
20. She's extremely picky about choosing a boyfriend, I'm afraid she'll become an old maid and never get married.
    她对男朋友的要求实在太高了，真怕她会成为一个迟婚的老女人。
21. In a tiny village lived an old maid.
    在一个村子里住着一个还没出嫁的老太太。
22. As the old maid entered the royal palace, she thought she saw the Buddha coming towards her.
    世尊教法的究竟，是秘密的金刚乘。当老女仆进入皇宫，她似乎看到世尊正向她走来。
23. He's nothing more than a ridiculous old maid.
    他完全是个谨小慎微的可笑人物。
24. Jolene has become an old maid.
    乔莉成了个老处女。
25. She was no more than an old maid.
    她不过是个老处女而已。
26. She's had three husbands and I'll be an old maid.
    她有过叁个丈夫，而我要变成一个老处女了。
27. It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.
    谈谈，也许这事情会办妥的。我开始在您家里学习老处女的行当。
28. Well I ain't sorry for you no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!
    我不再为你感到惋惜了，你这疯狂的、唱圣歌的、瘦弱的老未婚女。
29. Do we know who the old maid was?
    知道以前的女仆是谁吗？
30. As for me, I've been an old maid all these years and should have some fun too.
    我呢，当了这么些年老姑娘，也该痛快几天。

noun

1. a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed

2. the loser in a game of old maid

3. an elderly unmarried woman

   Synonym:    spinster

4. commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers

   Synonym:    periwinklerose periwinkleMadagascar periwinkleCape periwinklered periwinklecayenne jasmineCatharanthus roseusVinca rosea

5. any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

   Synonym:    zinniaold maid flower