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

來自古英語maegden,少女，處女，女仆，-en,小詞後綴，來自Proto-Germanic*magadinom,少女，年青女子，來自PIE*maghu,少男，少女，未結婚的人。後僅用於指女孩，少女。

maiden

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

maiden (n.)

Old English mægden, mæden "maiden, virgin, girl; maid, servant," diminutive of mægð, mægeð "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 Mädchen "girl, maid," from Mägdchen "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.

王子愛上了一位年輕美麗的少女.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The aircraft makes its maiden flight tomorrow.

這架飛機明天首航.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Her maiden name is Li.

她娘家姓李.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

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

蘭花向天井簷上張一張, 自言自語地說: “ 青姑娘還不回來 呢 !

來自漢英文學 - 散文英譯

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

1912年，“泰坦尼克”號在處女航中失事沉沒。

來自辭典例句