| 词汇 | spinster |
| 释义 | spinster noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /ˈspɪn.stər/ us /ˈspɪn.stɚ/ a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry老处女，老姑娘 Marriage: marital status bachelor bachelorette bachelorhood be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom between ex grass widow honeymooners live in married on the shelfidiom singleton spinsterhood spoken for trophy wife widow widowed widower widowhood wifely spinster | American Dictionaryspinster noun[ C ] datedus/ˈspɪn·stər/ a woman who is not married, esp. a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry Note:This word is likely to be offensive except if it is used about people in the past. Examples of spinsterspinster Several contributors stress the close relationship between demographic factors and the position and representation of spinsters. The view that bachelors and spinsters are in some sense deviant or residual groups appears to have weakened. There was one sale to a local spinster. These are single women, possessing an economic power unique to their status as spinsters. Judging by the wills of spinsters and widows, women had intense feelings about their possessions. British politicians seem to have been less troubled by the prospect of an electorate which included spinsters and widows. For example in 1985, 13% of spinsters married a divorced man as compared with 6% in 1971 and 4% in 1961. For spinsters this has been declining since 1920 and the declines of the last two decades have been quite rapid. In the book only completed families formed by the marriage of bachelors and spinsters are analysed. Comparisons of mean ages at marriage for particular marriage rank combinations, bachelor\\spinster, bachelor\\widow, widower\\spinster, and widower\\widow, are also possible. His spinster sister-in-law and her unmarried brother cared for his infant son. Female servants were usually middle-aged widows or spinsters. Of females aged 30 or more 8-6% were spinsters. It is the older spinster or widow who bears the brunt of poverty in old age. The interconnectedness of economics, sexuality, and community blur the boundaries between middle age and old age, between spinster and widow, between servant and mistress, between reproduction and production. 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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