"Oh dear, oh dear," cried Wendy, "I'm sure I sometimes think that spinsters are to be envied."

“天哪，天哪，”温迪叫道，“我有时候真觉得，老姑娘是值得羡慕的。”

Married women could certainly be spinsters.

已婚妇女当然是“spinsters”(纺纱者)。

In our hometown, if girls aren't married by 25 they're seen as spinsters.

在我们老家，如果女孩到25岁还不结婚，人们会觉得她们是怪人。

Oh, I must correct you, Mr. Smith. Nuns are not 'spinsters'; they are married to God.

噢，我一定要纠正你，史密斯先生。修女们不是‘老姑娘’；她们是嫁给了上帝。

We could not say 'All spinsters have curly hair' and know it to be true without experience.

我们不能说“所有未婚女子都有卷发”并在没有调查的情况下确认其正确性。

Upright, herons and their egret Cousins have the gaunt, hunched air of sharp-eyed spinsters dressed for an Edwardian salon.

当然，夜鹭和它们的白鹭伙伴们全都骨瘦如柴，它们被穿着像参加爱德华时代沙龙的眼神犀利的妇女高高举起，倒吊着。

She writes about British spinsters, in particular about the ones that would have married the “lost generation” of the first world war.

作品描写的是一群终身未嫁的英国女性，特别是那些原本可能嫁给一战“迷茫一代”的女性。

Spin is the important element here, since at first spinsters were young women whose main labor was to work at spinning flax or sheep's-wool into tread or yarn.

纺纱是这个词里的一个重要因素，因为最初“spinsters”（纺纱者）是指那些主要从事纺织工作，将亚麻或羊绒纺成丝线的年轻姑娘。

Not all of these bachelors were marrying spinsters of their own age, because only 20 previously unmarried female octogenarians made the same commitment that year.

但并不是每个光棍老人都娶与他年龄相近的女人为妻，因为在同一年只有20个80岁左右的女人第一次结婚。

Of course the reason that Robin Hood and Piers Plowman make it into today's podcast is that this is also the document that first mentions spinsters, making the word about 650 years old.

当然，罗宾汉及《农夫皮尔斯》进入今天播客的原因，也是因为这一文本中首次提到了spinsters(老姑娘)，这一形成于650年前的单词。