vestal virgin
基本解释
- n. 维斯太贞女；修女，处女
英汉例句
- Heroes slay dragons and save the maiden from being a vestal virgin locked away in some ivory tower.
英雄搏杀巨龙，营救被囚禁在某个象牙塔里的贞节女子。 - 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。 - 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。
双语例句
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