maiden
maiden 英 [ˈmeɪdn] 美 [ˈmedn]
adj. 未婚的，处女的；初次的 n. 少女；处女
名词复数:maidens
- A maiden is an old-fashioned term a girl or an unmarried young woman. If you see the words "Fair maiden!' you're probably reading a fairy tale.
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- adj. 未婚的，处女的；初次的
- n. 少女；处女
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1. The young man betrothed the neighboring maiden.
这名男青年答应娶邻居的少女为妻。
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2. His reputation stunk for obscenities to a maiden.
他因猥亵一名少女而声名狼藉。
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3. Year after year, this pure and beautiful maiden found that she was really in love with the ghost.
年复一年，这个纯洁美丽的处女发现自己是真的爱上了阴郁的冥间幽灵。
- maiden (adj.) "virgin, unmarried," c. 1300, from maiden (n.). The figurative sense of "new fresh, first" (as in maiden voyage) is first recorded 1550s. Maiden name is from 1680s.
- maiden (n.) Old English mægden, mæden "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of mægð, mægeð "virgin, girl; woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *magadin- "young womanhood, sexually inexperienced female" (source also of Old Saxon magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad "virgin, maid," German Magd "maid, maidservant," German Mädchen "girl, maid," from Mägdchen "little maid"), fem. variant of PIE root *maghu- "youngster of either sex, unmarried person" (source also of Old English magu "child, son, male descendant," Avestan magava- "unmarried," Old Irish maug "slave").
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