“天哪，天哪，”温迪叫道，“我有时候真觉得，老姑娘是值得羡慕的。”
"Oh dear, oh dear," cried Wendy, "I'm sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied."
你听说过那个裹着粉红浴袍老姑娘吗？
Did you ever hear the one about the spinster found dead in her pink bathrobe, surrounded by golden retriever puppies?
我是你遇见过的最老的老姑娘了，你怎么没来骗我呢？
Well, I'm the oldest maid you've ever met. Why haven't you swindled me?
毕竟她可不是老姑娘；相反，她是那种积极的存在，一位永保贞洁的女子。
She was not, after all, an old maid. No, she was that positive thing, an eternal virgin.
俺有一个6年的老姑娘，她地爹爹抛弃了俺们和俺们生存和俺娘。
I have a 6-years old daughter, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother.
她一面说，一面指着桌子，把那两个发亮的拿破仑指给那老姑娘看。收藏。
So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were glittering on the table.
噢，我一定要纠正你，史密斯先生。修女们不是‘老姑娘’；她们是嫁给了上帝。
Oh, I must correct you, Mr. Smith. Nuns are not 'spinsters'; they are married to God.
《老姑娘》讲述了一位家财万贯的科尔蒙小姐和她的几个追求者之间发生的故事。
An Old Maid tells a story between a rich girl and three of her pursuers, who temperamentally are different. At the end of the story, different outcomes occur to the three men.
在这家人里，除了那个老姑娘和那老头以外，还有一个小孩，一个在吉诺曼先生面前便会发抖沉默的小男孩。
There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the presence of M. Gillenormand.
我们家后面第二家是一对年长的来自英国的柴尔兹(Childs)夫妇和他们的老姑娘埃塞尔(ethel)。
The house next below ours was that of an elderly English couples named Childs and their spinster daughter Ethel.
我对贝蒂和妈妈说，她是个讨厌的老姑娘。妈妈回答说，我还是个出色的男孩子，长大会变成一个有礼貌的男子汉。
To Betty and my mother, I called her a disagreeable and mean old maid. My mother replied that I was a surly boy and would grow up to bee an uncharitable man.
在短篇小说《献给爱米莉的一朵玫瑰花》中，福克纳以时间倒错的方法，用一个个片断还原了一个生活在过去，用心理时间思考的老姑娘爱米莉。
In his short story A Rose For Emily, Faulkner employed the dislocation of time to depict the unmarried old lady Emily Crierson who lived in the past and pondered with psychological time.
我在国内来来回回了十来次，骗了一些寡妇和几个老姑娘，她们连你的脚后跟都比不上，我把她们的毕生积蓄撬走了一点点，你就等了这么长的时间。
As long as it took me to crisscross the country a dozen times, romancing widows and a couple of old maids who couldn't hold a candle to you, swindling them out of a little of their life's savings...
当然，罗宾汉及《农夫皮尔斯》进入今天播客的原因，也是因为这一文本中首次提到了spinsters(老姑娘)，这一形成于650年前的单词。
Of course the reason that Robin Hood and Piers Plowman make it into today's podcast is that this is also the document that first mentions spinsters, making the word about 650 years old.
当然，罗宾汉及《农夫皮尔斯》进入今天播客的原因，也是因为这一文本中首次提到了spinsters(老姑娘)，这一形成于650年前的单词。
Of course the reason that Robin Hood and Piers Plowman make it into today's podcast is that this is also the document that first mentions spinsters, making the word about 650 years old.
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