girl
n
1 [C]
(a) female child 女孩; 姑娘: a baby girl 女嬰
a little girl of six (years old) 六歲女童
Good morning, girls and boys! 孩子們, 早上好!
(b) daughter 女兒
Their eldest girl's getting married. 他們的長女就要結(jié)婚了.
2 [C]
(a) young, usu unmarried, woman 年輕女子(通常指未婚者)
a girl in her teens or early twenties 十幾歲或二十歲出頭的姑娘
He was eighteen before he started going out with girls. 他十八歲才開始交女朋友.
(b) woman of the specified type 某種類型的女人
She's the new girl in the office, so give her any help she needs. 她是辦公室的新人, 她有什麼需要就多幫幫忙.
the old girl who owns the sweet shop 這家糖果店的女掌柜
I'm a career girl, ie I concentrate on my career rather than getting married, etc. 我是事業(yè)心強的女人(注重事業(yè)而不思結(jié)婚等).
3 [C] (usu in compounds 通常用以構(gòu)成復(fù)合詞) female worker 女工作人員
an office-girl, a shop-girl, a telephone-girl, etc.
4 (man's) girl-friend (男子的)女朋友
taking his girl home to meet his parents 帶女朋友回家見父母.
5 girls [pl] (infml often joc 口, 常作戲謔語) (used for addressing a group of women of any age, by market-salesman, popular entertainers, etc 市場推銷員、 受歡迎的演員等用以稱呼任何年齡的婦女).
6 the girls [pl]
female friends of any age (任何年齡的)女性朋友
a night out with the girls 與女朋友外出的夜晚.