old maid

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Not the half of one--if she thinks such old maid's rubbish.
半點(diǎn)都不——假如她想的是這種老處女的廢話。
Click on the chart below for an animated explanation of how this game of Old Maid is played with hundreds of billions of dollars.
點(diǎn)擊下面圖表，會看到這種“老處女”游戲如何玩轉(zhuǎn)成百上千億美元的生動說明。
“Being an old maid”, says one of the characters in a story by Edna Ferber, an (unmarried) American novelist, was “l(fā)ike death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
美國小說家艾德娜費(fèi)勃（未婚）所創(chuàng)作的故事中的一個角色說：“做一個老處女就像被淹死一樣——當(dāng)你停止掙扎之時真得很快樂?！?/li>
原聲例句
Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.

"Well I ain't sorry for you no more, ya crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!"
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This kind of concentration makes the typical money manager with a comparably sized investment book look like an old maid.
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Northern English word meaning to worry and complain, as if one were an old maid, about something of near complete unimportance.
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a woman who is not married or has not had a sexual relationship and is not now young

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.