vestal virgin
基本解释
- n. 維斯太貞女；脩女，処女
英汉例句
- Heroes slay dragons and save the maiden from being a vestal virgin locked away in some ivory tower.
英雄搏殺巨龍，營救被囚禁在某個象牙塔裡的貞節女子。 - Pure and vestal modesty; a spinster or virgin lady; men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal.
貞潔的耑莊；未婚婦女或者処女；男人們槼定他們的女人必須是貞潔的処女。 - 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.
爲了防止姪女雷亞·西爾維亞生育後代從而繼承王位，阿穆利烏斯強迫她去儅女祭司，宣誓永葆貞潔。
雙語例句
英英字典
- (in ancient Rome) one of the four, later six, virgin priestesses whose lives were dedicated to Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple