Mr Godley said he had a lonely childhood, involving a violent maiden aunt and the “chamber of horrors of a British prep school”.

戈德利说过，他有一个陷于粗暴未婚姑妈和“英国预科学校恐怖屋”之难的孤独童年。

Old-fashioned and sweet, you know, but scared to move round without a footman or a maiden aunt.

你知道，老式而甜美， 但没有男仆或处女阿姨就不敢四处走动。

Several persons interested themselves in one so unfortunate; and soon after he inherited a sum of money from a maiden aunt in Worcestershire.

好几个人都对这样一个不幸的人感兴趣； 不久之后，他从伍斯特郡的一位未婚姨妈那里继承了一笔钱。

My maiden aunt, Honoria, always alleged that she called off her engagement to a wizard in the Improper Use of Magic Office because she discovered in time that “he had a hairy heart”.

我那未婚的姑妈霍诺利亚总是声称，她跟一个在禁止滥用魔法办公室工作的巫师解除了婚约，因为她及时发现了“他有一颗毛心脏”。

But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.

可惜乔也得注意自己的眼神，觉得它靠不住，会泄露自己心中的秘密，所以谨慎地只顾望着正在织着的小袜子，就像一个模范的独身姨妈。

She looked, Harry thought, like somebody's maiden aunt: squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink Alice band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her robes.

她体型矮胖，有着短而卷曲的鼠棕色头发，头发上面还带了一只恐怖的粉红色的爱丽丝蝴蝶结，以配合她穿在长袍外面的粉红色开襟羊毛衫。