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confirmed bachelor noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /kənˌfɜːmd ˈbætʃ.əl.ər/ us /kənˌfɝːmd ˈbætʃ.əl.ɚ/ a man who has never married and is thought unlikely ever to marry; sometimes used in the past to suggest that a man was gay: 未婚且不会结婚的男子(过去有时用来意指同性恋男子) The confirmed bachelor, who is 48 years old, argues that his sexual orientation is no one's business.这位48岁仍单身的男子认为他的性取向与他人无关。 He was thirty-eight and a confirmed bachelor, or so everyone thought, but on their second meeting he proposed.他38岁仍然未婚,大家也都认为他不会结婚,但是在他们第二次见面时,他就求婚了。 He was the subject of rumours - said to be what was once called "a confirmed bachelor". During the 1950s this confirmed bachelor met and married an American divorcee. At that time my father was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor, but he met my mother and fell desperately in love. Though he was occasionally referred to as "a confirmed bachelor", he chose not to "come out" to the general public. He plays Harry, a confirmed bachelor and ladies' man who despite his own advancing years only dates women under 30. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Marriage: marital status bachelor bachelorette bachelorhood be between jobs/marriages/boyfriends, girlfriends, etc.idiom between grass widow honeymooners live in married marry singleton spinster spinsterhood spoken for trophy wife widow widowed widower widowhood wifely |