The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress.

未婚女子穿著破烂的结婚礼服日渐消瘦。

Their idea was to target bachelors and spinsters, offering the comfort of a new possession to ease their loneliness.

他们的目标就是单身一族和未婚女性，购买欲将让他们缓解孤独。

" Oh dear, oh dear, " cried Wendy, " I'm sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied" .

" 哦，天哪，哦，天哪，" 温迪叫道，" 我有时候真的认为，小孩子带来的麻烦比好处多呢。"

But, as she pointed out: " Jesus has taken care of me that I have never become a frustrated old spinster" .

但是，正如她指出的：“耶稣如此照顾我，以至于我从未成为一个沮丧的老处女”。

I bet she's a cool, not weird, spinster.

我确定她是一位很酷也不诡异的未婚女性。

There's a spinster in the making and no mistake.

看来她注定要成为老处女了。

125--There's a spinster in the making and no mistake.

她是个没有过错的老处女。

But it's okay — you can just put me at the table with the spinster aunts and the reject cousins.

不过没关系，你可以把我安排在未出阁姑姑和光棍表亲那一桌。

I always figured I'd be a spinster who lived with Carrie.

我一直以为会当老处女和凯莉相依为命。

" Sir Harry" ! she exclaimed, " I have an idea. How would you like spinsters" ?

“哈利爵士” ！ 她惊呼道，“我有个主意。你喜欢老处女怎么样” ？

[Woman] A spinster is a lady who never gets married.

- [女人] 老处女是从未结婚的女士。

You were allowed the pure and tranquil life of a spinster.

- 你被允许过纯洁而宁静的老处女生活。

I may be a spinster, and I'm fine with that.

我可能是个老处女， 对此我没有意见。

So you can imagine all these Victorian spinsters: Oh, not the thimble again! Right.

所以那时的单身女士都会说，别再吃到顶针了。

His house is a rococco two-story affair, tall and gangling like an antique spinster.

他的房子是洛可可风格的两层楼， 高大瘦长，像个古董老处女。

Committed spinster? She's already one step away from being the...

终生不嫁 她再努力一点就成了。

And I hope every spinster may find as good a husband as my wife has found'.

我希望每个老处女都能找到和我妻子一样好的丈夫。”

I met George when I was 35 and starting to become quite resigned to the idea that I was going to be a spinster.

我遇见乔治的时候，已经35岁，那时候，我已经无奈而妥协地接受，我可能会变成老处女，一生不嫁孤独终老。

Now this lady was a thin, yellow spinster, with a sharp nose and inquisitive eyes, who saw everything and gossiped about all she saw.

这是位瘦小、多疑的老处女，有着尖尖的鼻子和东张西望的眼睛，她什么事都看得见，而且把看见的到处传播。

Instantly, the reader is in Alice Munro territory: spinsters with lingering ilnesses and stifled passions, jealous married women scrubbing floors, inky veins protruding from their legs.

读者立刻就进入了艾丽丝·门罗的语境：疾病缠身、激情被抑制的老姑娘，正在擦洗地板的善妒的已婚妇女，她们腿上凸出的静脉血管像用墨水画上去的一样。