maiden

英 ['me?d(?)n] 美['medn]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?maidens;

maiden 少女，處女

來(lái)自古英語(yǔ)maegden,少女，處女，女仆，-en,小詞后綴，來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*magadinom,少女，年青女子，來(lái)自PIE*maghu,少男，少女，未結(jié)婚的人。后僅用于指女孩，少女。

maiden: maiden: [OE] Maiden goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *magadiz ‘young (sexually inexperienced) woman’, which is also the source of German m?dchen ‘girl’. Its diminutive form, *magadīnam, passed into Old English as m?gden, the antecedent of modern English maiden. Maid is a 12th-century abbreviation.
maiden (n.): Old English m?gden, m?den "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of m?ge, m?gee "virgin, girl; woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *magadinom "young womanhood, sexually inexperienced female" (cognates: Old Saxon magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad "virgin, maid," German Magd "maid, maidservant," German M?dchen "girl, maid," from M?gdchen "little maid"), fem. variant of PIE root *maghu- "youngster of either sex, unmarried person" (cognates: Old English magu "child, son, male descendant," Avestan magava- "unmarried," Old Irish maug "slave").
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.

4. Looking up at the eaves, Orchid muttered: " Why isn't Spring Maiden back yet? ": 蘭花向天井檐上張一張, 自言自語(yǔ)地說(shuō): “ 青姑娘還不回來(lái) 呢 !

5. In 1912, the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage.: 1912年，“泰坦尼克”號(hào)在處女航中失事沉沒。