舊故事裡的年輕姑娘
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young unmarried woman · noun
A young woman who is not married, especially a pretty young woman in an old story about knights, castles and kings.
少女；姑娘（舊時用語）
Picture a page from an old storybook: a castle, a forest, a young woman of good family who is not married yet, and a knight on the road. Damsel is the name that page gives her. The word arrived through Old French from a Latin word for a lady of the house, in its small form, so it started out close to little lady. That storybook page is where the word still lives, which is why using it about a real woman today sounds like putting a costume on her.
可以想成一頁舊故事書的插圖：城堡、森林、一位出身不錯、還沒出嫁的年輕姑娘，還有一個騎馬趕路的騎士。damsel 就是那一頁給她的稱呼。這個字經由古法文回到拉丁文「女主人」的小稱形式，出發點接近「小女主人」。它到今天還住在那一頁裡，所以拿來說現代的女生，聽起來就像硬給人穿上古裝。
From the word’s history
Through Old French damoisele from Vulgar Latin dominicella, a small form of domina (lady of the house), so the word begins near little lady.
經由古法文 damoisele，來自通俗拉丁文 dominicella，也就是 domina（女主人）的小稱形式，起點接近「小女主人」。
Wiktionary, "damsel"
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