spinster
独身主义者
definition
noun
He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and spinsters marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment.
an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.
translation of 'spinster'
noun
独身主义者,
独身者
example
A 'spinster' is more than a female bachelor: she is beyond the expected marrying age and therefore seen as rejected and undesirable.
I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely 'spinster' .
Jane is the bright spot in her lonely 'spinster' 's life, and a letter from Jane is what she lives and waits for.
Finally, the night was drawing to an end and I was dragged up the front along with all the other unmarried 'spinsters' - against my protests - to try and catch the bouquet.
He is a gigolo, a love 'em and leave 'em flimflam man who promises widows and 'spinsters' marriage and devotion on the premise of a substantial upfront cash payment.
Single men and those with families, wives, widows and 'spinsters' could all be found in the movement.
Often they picked one child - usually a daughter - to stay home with the parents, caring for them well into her 'spinsterhood' .
Youths, who remained bachelors and 'spinsters' due to their economic backwardness, were identified and provided with the required cash and materials for settling down in life.
Ann Street started life as an out-of-the-way address for well-to-do widows and 'spinsters' .
Brian told the secretary, a comically 'spinsterish' woman with a bun and glasses, that they were there for Mr. Mallard.
Is this the sound of my impending 'spinsterhood' ?
The experience of these nineteenth-century 'spinsters' cannot be divorced from their language because it structured their experience, indeed, it made their experience possible.
Female sexuality is now in a better state than it was in Victorian England, when women were categorised into three types: virgin 'spinsters' , wives who only tolerated sex, or whores.
Her omnipotent Jewish mother valiantly works to end her daughter's 'spinsterhood' , but to no avail.
Lenore's a singing waitress who's been dumped by her long-term boyfriend; Heidi is a 'spinsterish' professor at Concordia, partnerless, but determined to get pregnant.
Bachelors and 'spinsters' continued to be common and the age of marriage remained high.
Too stern, too bookish, or too 'spinsterish' - it was obvious that choosing glasses is tougher than finding a single man who's not weird.
Both widows and 'spinsters' were prominent in property ownership and in financing businesses as sleeping partners.
Or perhaps, in a more generous mood, you'd have her turning 40 and sinking gracefully into the silent oblivion of confirmed 'spinsterhood' .
Texas's married women quickly relinquished power to their husbands after the Civil War, and 'spinsters' and widows in the Old Southeast maintained close economic and personal ties to kin.
Not that single men of today do not have the same taste as the bachelors or 'spinsters' of those days but it so happened that during that period the circumstances were unique.
For example, until recently hardline bachelors and 'spinsters' were seen as odd and eccentric - while today they have become mainstream, even positive figures.
I swear to God… I am preparing for my 'spinsterhood' .
The advice literature reiterated this view in the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, and the theme of true marriage and moral 'spinsters' persisted into the last decades of the century.
Edith and her sister were trapped in 'spinsterish' lives, caring for their selfish, manipulative mother.
If blame is to be laid, it should be at the feet of a handful of aged and godly 'spinsters' and widows who taught me through my primary education.
At one time this would have raised eyebrows - all those lonely 'spinsters' and neglected bachelors sitting at home, pining for a mate.
Unmarried women over twenty were considered 'spinsters' , and bachelors in their late twenties were subjected to public censure and mockery.
What is to be regretted, however, is the demise of all those conscientious 'spinsters' and widows who used to type authors' manuscripts.
Sheba is branded a harlot in the press and forced to quit her job and flee the family home, which she does with Barbara Covett, the school's 'spinsterish' history teacher.
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