The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress.

未婚女子穿著破烂的结婚礼服渐消瘦。

Their idea was to target bachelors and spinsters, offering the comfort of a new possession to ease their loneliness.

他们的目标就是单身一族和未婚女性，购买欲将让他们缓解孤独。

But it's okay — you can just put me at the table with the spinster aunts and the reject cousins.

没关系，你可以把我安排在未出阁姑姑和光棍表亲那一桌。

" 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，小孩子带来的麻烦比好处多呢。"

125--There's a spinster in the making and no mistake.

她是个没有错的老处女。

Committed spinster? She's already one step away from being the...

终生嫁 她再努力一点就成了。

So you can imagine all these Victorian spinsters: Oh, not the thimble again! Right.

所以那时的单身女士都会说，别再吃到顶针了。

Charlotte's 36th birthday, Saturday night. l say we spinsters take back Manhattan. l've thought about it... and l've decided l'm sticking at 35.

下星期六是夏绿蒂36岁生。我们这群老姑婆来闹翻曼哈顿。我考虑了，决定保持35岁。

I always figured I'd be a spinster who lived with Carrie.

我一直以为会当老处女和凯莉相依为命。

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。

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，我可能会变成老处女，一生嫁孤独终老。

I bet she's a cool, not weird, spinster.

我确定她是一位很酷也诡异的未婚女性。

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.

我得我遇见少身材壮硕、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，说话柔声细气，眼睛滴溜溜乱转。

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！"

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，可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。