That sounded like a Victorian spinster then, didn't it?

那听起来像个维多利亚时代的独身女性，对吧？

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，我能会变成老处女，一生不嫁孤独终老。

I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes, who wore their clothes as though they were armour; and of little, mouse-like spinsters, with soft voices and a shrewd glance.

我记得我遇见不少身材壮硕、腰板挺得笔直的女人。这些女人生着大鼻头，目光炯炯，衣服穿在她们身上好象披着一挂甲胄；我也看到许多象小老鼠似的瘦小枯干的老处女，说细气，眼睛滴溜溜乱转。

No one ever told her anything really shocking or scandalous, for her spinster state must be protected even if she was sixty years old, and her friends were in a kindly conspiracy to keep her a sheltered and petted old child.

也从没有人告诉她任何真正使人吃惊或真正属于丑闻的事，为的是保护她的老处女心态，尽管她已是６０岁的人了，朋友们仍然好意地相互串通，要让她继续做一个受到庇护和宠爱的老小孩。

She had taken a large rambling house, which had been usually considered to confer a patent of gentility upon its tenant, because, once upon a time, seventy or eighty years before, the spinster daughter of an earl had resided in it.

她租了一座占地很大的房子，人们通常认为这房子能给来贵族身份，因为大约七八十年前，在这里的一位老姑娘是伯爵的女儿。

There's a lot of parallels with Ada in The Gilded Age where these are women who and one is like being like labeled like a spinster. - Right.

《镀金时代》中的艾达与一些人很多相似之处，其中一个女人就被贴上了老处女的标签。- 对。

Beyond sat a pair of humble lovers, artlessly holding each other by the hand, a somber spinster eating peppermints out of a paper bag, and an old gentleman taking his preparatory nap behind a yellow bandanna.

再过去是一对温顺的恋人，直率地手拉着手，还有一个忧郁的老处女正从纸包里拿薄荷糖吃，一位老先生用一块黄色的印花大手帕遮了脸，趁听课前先小睡片刻。

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。

" 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，小孩子来的麻烦比好处多呢。"

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，你以把我安排在未出阁姑姑和光棍表亲那一桌。

When she sat down to a basketful of their stockings, every heel with a hole in it, she would fling up her arms and exclaim, " Oh dear, I am sure I sometimes think spinsters are to be envied" !

她对着一篮筐的袜子坐下来，每个袜底都有一个破洞，她会举起两个胳膊，喊道：" 哦，天哪，我有时候真觉得没结婚的老姑娘是让人羡慕的！"

I looked, and I saw the tall, thin, dry, dusty rector, sitting surrounded by National School boys, guarded by troops of his own sex from any approach of the many Cranford spinsters.

我看过去，只见那位又高又瘦、干瘪、灰扑扑的牧师坐在一群国民学校的男生中间，被一群男人保护着，以免克兰福德的众多老姑娘接近他。

Before the ladies could recover from their shocked astonishment at her statement and at a spinster mentioning such a matter, Melanie was standing in the doorway.

她们惊魂未定，媚兰就在门口出现了。

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。

As Miss Pole observed, " As most of the ladies of good family in Cranford were elderly spinsters, or widows without children, if we did not relax a little, and become less exclusive, by-and-by we should have no society at all."

正如波尔小姐所说：“由于克兰福德大多数出身名门的女士都是上了年纪的老姑娘，或者没有孩子的寡妇，因此如果我们不稍微放松一点规矩、不变得包容一些，那么渐渐地我们的社交圈子就没人了。”

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。

The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress.

穿着破旧婚纱日渐消瘦的未婚女子。

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

- [女人] 老处女是从未结婚的女士。

You mean in this neighborhood full of old spinsters!

亚历克斯：你是说在这个到处都是老处女的小区里！

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

我能是个老处女， 对此我没有意见。