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spin.sterH5spInt7stE5, $-stLn [C]a woman who is not married, esp. a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry未婚妇女，老处女A spinster who played the stock market from her tiny terrace home has left almost ￡2 million to charity.一个住在小排屋里爱炒股的未婚妇女给慈善机构留下了二百万英镑。Early on she had come to accept that as a career woman scientist she was virtually committed to being a spinster.早先她谈到过，作为一名职业女科学家，她只好做个未婚妇女。(disapproving) She's become a typical spinster--can't understand why with four children my house is always untidy!她成了个典型的老处女----不明白为什么我家因为有了4个孩子而常常乱七八糟的！He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧场留给了他未婚的妹妹。
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