spinsterhood

For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood.

从前，就多数妇女而言，结婚的比独身的更有地位。

The mantle of spinsterhood was definitely on her shoulders now.

英迪亚已完全是一副老处女的样子了.

But nobody said anything about poor Berry, who cried for six weeks ( being soundly rated by her good aunt all the time), and lapsed into a state of hopeless spinsterhood.

可是对可怜的贝里却没有一个人说过一句话；她哭了六个星期（她善良的姑妈一直在严厉地斥责她），并落到一个绝望的老处女的处境。--------①英文中腿（leg）这个词的发音为莱格。

She had stiffened into a pronounced spinsterhood.

她古板得成了十足的老处女.