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the virgin

/vur-jin/US // ˈvɜr dʒɪn //UK // (ˈvɜːdʒɪn) //

处女,处女座,处女的,处女之身

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has never had sexual intercourse.
    • : an unmarried girl or woman.
    • : Ecclesiastical. an unmarried, religious woman, especially a saint.
    • : the Virgin, Mary, the mother of Christ.
    • : Informal. any person who is uninitiated, uninformed, or the like: He's still a virgin as far as hard work is concerned.
    • : a female animal that has never copulated.
    • : an unfertilized insect.
    • : Astronomy, Astrology. the constellation or sign of Virgo.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being a virgin: a virgin martyr.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a virgin: virgin modesty.
    • : pure; unsullied; undefiled: virgin snow.
    • : first: the senator's virgin speech.
    • : without admixture, alloy, or modification: virgin gold.
    • : not previously exploited, cultivated, tapped, or used: virgin timberlands; virgin wool.
    • : without experience of; not previously exposed to: a mind virgin to such sorrows.
    • : Informal. being a mixed drink resembling a specific cocktail but made without any alcoholic ingredient: a virgin piña colada.
    • : Zoology. not fertilized.
    • : made directly from ore by smelting, rather than from scrap.
    • : noting the oil obtained, as from olives, by the first pressing without the application of heat.

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Examples

  • The company will ship cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil directly to your door, along with information about the grove and farmer.

  • Because the protected areas are off-limits to the wide-scale clearing that has created lucrative palm oil plantations across Borneo, villagers often cut and sell the virgin trees.

  • He drove us out to the convention the following night, cracking wise about virgins and nerds.

  • In the 1950s and 1960s, only a quarter of men and less than half of women were virgins at age 19.

  • Investment in new technologies goes up, but investment in virgin production and conversion are sharply reduced.

  • The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!

  • And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.

  • Are we going to see you on a Virgin Galactic or SpaceX flight in the future?

  • It has now been revealed that Princess Beatrice will not be among those who will ultimately voyage with Virgin Galactic.

  • Her long-term boyfriend Dave Clark is head of ‘astronaut relations’ for Virgin Galactic.

  • The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”

  • I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.

  • She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.

  • Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?

  • The print of steel-rimmed hoofs showed in the soft loam as plainly as a moccasin-track in virgin snow.