| 词汇 | example_english_old-woman |
| 释义 | Examples of old womanThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. She falls asleep by the side of the lake that was to be her grave and is found by the oldwoman. The short, round man who came through the curtains at the back of the store uttered the name preciously as might an oldwoman. But the moon's mockery of the oldwoman is not simple; it is cruel and twisted, and so is the musical imitation. A distraught oldwoman restrains the old warrior, while two younger men attempt to calm his attackers. An oldwoman and a young lady were there. The oldwoman would not listen to such fancy stuff. Here the speaker introduces a third party, again unexpectedly in the final strophe with the aid of a proximal ('this oldwoman'). Growing to be an oldwoman : aging and ageism. It is all over, they eulogize - the oldwoman has reached her end. One oldwoman was burnt to death in the flames of the hut she refused to leave. The words written by the girl, and the paper handled, will be the same read and held by the oldwoman. Prolonged in-vivo exposure therapy with a 70-year oldwoman. The young girl favored the player with the driver who were talking to an oldwoman. They present a picture of the witch which accords with early modern stereotypes : an oldwoman, often a beggar refused, who bewitches with a look. At the table to the side an oldwoman folds back the years. One of the few people outside of his family who did was an oldwoman with blurred tattoos on her hands, a neighbour. The young girl favored the driver of the player who was talking to an oldwoman. Their racconti patently allude to each other, primarily by unfolding through a chain of identical details: the place by the sea, the oldwoman, her death. Placed at the bottom of the household hierarchy along with servants (recall the case of the ' little oldwoman ' in household twenty-five), they were virtually barred from remarrying. One type, so clearly defined as to have a class to itself, is the oldwoman, often the procuress for the lover and his love object. She is just a little oldwoman. She is, at the same time, a lonely oldwoman who helps human beings with their chores - assisting woodsmen and weavers by shouldering their work burdens. But he also described her very inaccurately as an ' oldwoman ', and he had no knowledge of her political revelations, believing instead that her fraudulent visions alone caused her downfall. If we do not know what we are going to be, we cannot know what we are : let us recognize ourselves in this old man or in that oldwoman. An oldwoman observes the scene. She sat opposite the mirror, and pored over her own features with an almost skilful scrutiny, and told herself at last aloud that she had become an oldwoman. I was interested last year in trying to get old age pensions for an old man and an oldwoman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he is over that age, he is probably some oldwoman whom it is quite unnecessary to employ under these circumstances. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The clean oldwoman occupying one of the houses said it was impossible to keep the cats out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not the fact that the oldwoman, when taken into court, heard very imperfectly what was going on? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is an outbreak of ringworm among the children, or some oldwoman dies under conditions which lead to allegations of neglect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Assume that an oldwoman is residing with her son-in-law, who is under no obligation whatever to maintain her. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was not handed out from the office it was posted to each man's home, so that the "oldwoman" could see it, too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was fighting so many injustices he was becoming the legal equivalent of the oldwoman who lived in a shoe. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had to pass round the hat to get enough money to bury the oldwoman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They put in beds and fed and looked after those people, who ranged from babies to an oldwoman of nearly 80. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am reminded of what an oldwoman in my division said in 1914. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every time the oldwoman buys two ounces of tea or the old man buys his half ounce of tobacco. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It represents the interior of a kitchen in which an oldwoman is sitting, holding over a stove a pan in which eggs are cooking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I remember one oldwoman who had bunions, and who hobbled, and for whom life was sheer misery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She outlived her eldest sister, and left her other sister a twisted oldwoman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I only found one person who tried to vote twice, an oldwoman of about 80. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He should have fallen in love with a toothless oldwoman. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English It will be like the oldwoman who owed £10. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An oldwoman, a frightened old creature, hysterically seeing mice under every bed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They probably also passed around the oldwoman. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There, again, that oldwoman has been deprived of her pension because she is receiving parish relief. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is that of an oldwoman who invested all her hard-earned savings in a small piece of land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But suppose the store detective took hold of the oldwoman and led her out of the store. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One oldwoman came up to me with a piece of plastic and pushed it into my hand. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the other hand, it was legal to nail an oldwoman to a tree by her ears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is this increment that the oldwoman or the old man get when they retire if they have postponed their retirement? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An oldwoman came to me for advice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These suggestions to put the nation in bed on a starvation diet are the suggestions of an oldwoman in a fright. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When a vicious young man nearly batters an oldwoman to death and steals the money from the till, some people are inclined to say. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We glimpsed the body of an oldwoman, her legs protruding from the rubble of her home. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the case of an oldwoman who goes into the workhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then why cannot they employ an oldwoman if they think that a young woman is going to leave? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does an oldwoman require less in the way of food, clothes and warmth than an old man? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 An oldwoman might have been saving unknown to her husband. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For knocking down this poor oldwoman and injuring her for the rest of her life he was fined only£5. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or was it a matter of the historic interest of this subject—the oldwoman cooking eggs? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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