nubile
nubile 英 [ˈnju:baɪl] 美 [ˈnubaɪl]
adj. 适婚的
名词复数:nubiles
- Nubile is a word for young women who are attractive and "suitable for marriage" (which honestly sounds sort of chauvinistic). Feminist idealism aside, nubile is a flattering term for a gal. It means youthful and sexy.
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- adj. 适婚的
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1. We like people to be young, nubile and attractive.
我们喜欢人们变得更年轻，性感和有魅力。
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2. They aim their advice squarely at nubile girls who have falsely equated romantic love with happiness.
其目的是如实地建议就要结婚的女孩，不要错误地认为，浪漫的爱情就是幸福。
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3. To play the part of Edie Sedgwick with any conviction Sienna Miller had to employ the skills of her enormous eyes and long, nubile legs.
为了更好地诠释伊迪-塞奇威克这个角色，西耶娜-米勒必须发挥她的大眼睛和性感长腿的魅力。
- nubile (adj.) 1640s, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from French nubile (16c.) or directly from Latin nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband" (see nuptial). In sense of "young and sexually attractive" from 1973. Related: Nubility.
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