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maidenhood 處女性,處女時期。

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It was the first time she had heard an oath from the lips of a man she knew , and she was shocked , not merely as a matter of principle and training , but shocked in spirit by this rough blast of life in the garden of her sheltered maidenhood 從她所認識的男人嘴里聽見褻線的活,這在她還是第一次。她很吃驚,不但因為那是個原則和教養時問題,而己因為她的精神在她受到庇護的處文苑圃里受到了生活里的狂風的吹打,感到了震撼。

All other scenes of earth - even that village of rural england , where happy infancy and stainless maidenhood seemed yet to be in her mother s keeping , like garments put off long ago - were foreign to her , in comparison 世界上別的景色,甚至包括她度過幸福的童年和無暇的少女時期的英格蘭鄉村象是早巳換下的衣服,交給她母親去保管了,相比之下,那些地方在她眼里那是它鄉異地了。

So when maidenhood has wandered into the moil of the city , when it is brought within the circle of the “ rounder “ and the roue , even though it be at the outermost rim , they can come forth and use their alluring arts 所以那些少女們流落到大城市時,一旦落入了這些浪子和登徒子之流的圈套,即使只是碰到了圈套的最邊緣,他們也會走上前來,施展勾搭引誘的花招。

Ruth was blushing , but it was the blush of maidenhood called upon for the first time to discuss the sacred things of life with a mother held equally sacred 露絲紅了臉,是處女的羞紅。她還是第一次跟被她看作神圣的母親討論這個在生命中同樣神圣的問題。

Nature , in her fantastic trickery , had set such a seal of maidenhood upon tess s countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air 自然用它異想天開的詭計,在苔絲的臉卜刻下一種處女的標志,安琪爾看著她,不禁目瞪口呆。

She might prove it false if she could veil bygones . the recuperative power which pervaded organic nature was surely not denied to maidenhood alone 如果她能夠把過去掩蓋起來,她也許就可以證明這句話是錯誤的了。

After vows , the bride ' s floral wreath , which symbolizes her maidenhood , is removed and set afire by the mistress of ceremonies 婚禮宣誓后,象征著新娘少女身份的花環要由婚禮的女主持人取下燒掉。