纺纱是这个词里的一个重要因素，因为最初“spinsters”（纺纱者）是指那些主要从事纺织工作，将亚麻或羊绒纺成丝线的年轻姑娘。

Spin is the important element here, since at first spinsters were young women whose main labor was to work at spinning flax or sheep's-wool into tread or yarn.

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姑娘们只学习纺织缝纫，至多也不过学一点读写而已。

Girls only learned spinning, weaving, and sewing, and at most a little reading and writing.

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姑娘们只学习纺织缝纫，至多也不过学一点读写而已。

Girls only learned spinning, weaving, and sewing, and at most a little reading and writing.

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