maiden
/ˈmeɪdən/ 形容词 C2中文： 首次的、初次的、未婚的
- Virgin.
- Without offspring.
- Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
- Being a first occurrence or event. · 1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.· The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.
- Being an over in which no runs are scored. · He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.
- Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
- Never having been captured or violated.
- Grown from seed and never pruned.
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He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
I’ve decided to give ‘The Maiden’s Vow.’ It’s so pathetic.
Anne put it on one evening for Matthew’s and Marilla’s benefit, and recited “The Maiden’s Vow” for them in the kitchen.
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