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duenna n.1.(西班牙家庭中的)保姆;(閨女的)陪媼。2.女家...

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These facts , he alleges , and the revolting spectacles offered by our streets , hideous publicity posters , religious ministers of all denominations , mutilated soldiers and sailors , exposed scorbutic cardrivers , the suspended carcases of dead animals , paranoic bachelors and unfructified duennas - these , he said , were accountable for any and every fallingoff in the calibre of the race 他聲稱,民族素質的衰退應統統歸咎于這些因素以及我們街頭上那些令人厭惡的景象:觸目驚心的海報,各種支派的教士,陸海軍的殘廢軍人,風里雨里趕馬車的壞血癥患者,懸吊著的獸骸,患偏執狂的單身漢以及不能生育的護理婦。