maiden

• adj. 未婚的，处女的；初次的
• n. 少女；处女
• n. (Maiden)人名；(日)每田(姓)

来自古英语maegden,少女，处女，女仆，-en,小词后缀，来自Proto-Germanic*magadinom,少女，年青女子，来自PIE*maghu,少男，少女，未结婚的人。后仅用于指女孩，少女。

maiden

maiden: [OE] Maiden goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *magadiz ‘young (sexually inexperienced) woman’, which is also the source of German mdchen ‘girl’. Its diminutive form, *magadīnam, passed into Old English as mgden, the antecedent of modern English maiden. Maid is a 12th-century abbreviation.

maiden (n.)

Old English mgden, mden "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of mg, mge "virgin, girl; woman, wife," from Proto-Germanic *magadinom "young womanhood, sexually inexperienced female" (cognates: Old Saxon magath, Old Frisian maged, Old High German magad "virgin, maid," German Magd "maid, maidservant," German Mdchen "girl, maid," from Mgdchen "little maid"), fem. variant of PIE root *maghu- "youngster of either sex, unmarried person" (cognates: Old English magu "child, son, male descendant," Avestan magava- "unmarried," Old Irish maug "slave").

maiden (adj.)

"virgin, unmarried," c. 1300, from maiden (n.). The figurative sense of "new fresh, first" (as in maiden voyage) is first recorded 1550s. Maiden name is from 1680s.

1. The prince fell in love with a fair young maiden.

王子爱上了一位年轻美丽的少女.

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2. The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.

这架飞机明天首航.

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3. Her maiden name is Li.

她娘家姓李.

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4. Looking up at the eaves, Orchid muttered: " Why isn't Spring Maiden back yet? "

兰花向天井檐上张一张, 自言自语地说: “ 青姑娘还不回来 呢 !

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5. In 1912, the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage.

1912年，“泰坦尼克”号在处女航中失事沉没。

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