spinster
英 [ˈspɪnstə(r)] 美 [ˈspɪnstɚ]

n.

未婚女人，老处女；

变形

复数：spinsters

英英释义

spinster[ 'spinstə ]

• n.
  • an elderly unmarried woman

    同义词：old maid

  • someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)

    同义词：spinnerthread maker

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
   他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧场留给了他未婚妹妹。
2. The sisters were to remain spinsters for the rest of their lives.
   姐妹们准备余生继续保持未婚。
3. The poor good old woman was a spinster.
   那可怜慈祥的妇人是个老处女。
4. If you're single, you'll sound like a dried-up old spinster.
   如果你单身，人家会觉得你是一个干枯的老处女。

权威例句

The spinster and her enemies : feminism and sexuality, 1880-1930
Spinster controls Dpp signaling during glial migration in the Drosophila eye.
Spinster is required for autophagic lysosome reformation and mTOR reactivation following starvation.
The spinster homolog, two of hearts, is required for sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in zebrafish
Blessed or not? The new spinster in England and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Unrestricted Synaptic Growth in spinster —a Late Endosomal Protein Implicated in TGF-β-Mediated Synaptic Growth Regulation
ENHANCED MATE REFUSAL IN FEMALE DROSOPHILA INDUCED BY A MUTATION IN THE SPINSTER LOCUS
Mutations in the Novel Membrane Protein Spinster Interfere with Programmed Cell Death and Cause Neural Degeneration in Drosophila me...
Spinster is required for autophagic lysosome reformation and mTOR reactivation following starvation (Proceedings of the National Aca...
Zebrafish yolk-specific not really started (nrs) gene is a vertebrate homolog of the Drosophila spinster gene and is essential for e...