vestal

英

美

网络  维斯塔; 女神官; 贞女; 灶神维斯太; 纯洁的

BNC.43656 / COCA.39497

英英释义

noun

• a chaste woman

adj

• in a state of sexual virginity
  1. pure and vestal modesty
  2. a spinster or virgin lady
  3. men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal
  Synonym:purevirginvirginalvirtuous
• of or relating to Vesta
  1. vestal virgin

双语例句

• It is a gardener's improvement on the vestal of the forest, the wild cherry.
  它是一个园艺家培养出的森林修女-野樱桃的一个变种。
• In order to prevent his niece, Rhea Silvia, from havIng offsprIng and so contInuIng Numitor's lIneage, Amulius forced her to become a vestal virgIn.
  为了防止侄女雷亚·西尔维亚生育后代从而继承王位，阿穆利乌斯强迫她去当女祭司，宣誓永葆贞洁。
• I know the vestal matriarch has sworn the temple will not take sides.
  我知道女族长是发过誓，神殿不参与斗争的。
• What means this tumult in a vestal's veins?
  这样的波澜在修女的心中意味着什幺？
• Vestal looked up to see Belfreda crooking a finger from the half-darkness of the hall.
  薇思德一抬头，看见白菲瑞达在半明半暗的门厅里弯弯手指招她过去。
• With a little vestal, a lovenest.
  带着一个小修女，一个爱巢。
• You're paying a visit to the vestal temple.
  你要去一趟祭祀院。
• I am a vestal virgin, one of only six in all the world.
  我是全世界仅有的六名灶神修女之一。
• Pure and vestal modesty; a spinster or virgin lady; men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal.
  贞洁的端庄；未婚妇女或者处女；男人们规定他们的女人必须是贞洁的处女。
• On the Social Status of the Vestal Virgins in Ancient Rome
  论古罗马维斯塔贞女的社会地位