| 单词 | superfluous girl |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuperfluous girl c. Designating a person, usually a woman, unlikely to marry because of a surplus of one gender over the other in the population. Chiefly in superfluous girl, superfluous woman.Now often with reference to the period after the end of the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > one unlikely to marry superfluous woman1855 superfluous girl1885 1855 A. Jameson Sisters of Charity 56 Take of these 500,000 superfluous women only the one-hundredth part..to join the communion of labour. 1885 Phrenol. Jrnl. Mar. 184/1 If the equilibrium of the sexes could be restored, the excess of the female in the East would vanish, and the superfluous girl become the honored wife, and superfluous boy would then come to the surface quite able to take care of himself. 1886 L. M. Alcott Jo's Boys i. 22 There is a plenty for the ‘superfluous women’ to do... I..am very glad..that my profession will make me a useful..spinster. 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married Pref. in Doctor's Dilemma 140 In our population there are about a million monogamically superfluous women, yet it is quite impossible to say of any given unmarried woman that she is one of the superfluous. 1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First vii. 133 The 1921 census showed a 1,700,000 surplus of women over men as a result of the slaughter of the war years..the so-called superfluous woman. 2007 L. Millward Women in Brit. Imperial Airspace, 1922–37 iii. 78 The modern superfluous girl had to make do without motherhood and intimacy. < as lemmas |
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