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old-maidish adj.拘謹的;像老處女的。

old-school

Howells was, despite his faintly old-maidish quality, the most professional of writers, and the most generously sympathetic of critics . 所有這些,使豪威爾斯成為最精通本行的作家和寬厚的批評家,只是有點婆婆媽媽。