другие переводы
| весталка |
vestal
vestal virgin
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| девственница |
virgin
vestal
cherry
|
| старая дева |
old maid
spinster
maiden
vestal
tabby
|
| монахиня |
nun
sister
conventual
votaress
cloistress
vestal
|
| девственный |
virgin
virginal
maiden
chaste
vestal
|
| целомудренный |
chaste
virtuous
pure
honest
vestal
continent
|
| непорочный |
pure
virginal
clean
vestal
|
| стародевический |
maidenish
vestal
old-maidish
|
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Later on it occurs to the otherwise gullible Jude that ‘it had been no vestal who chose that missile for opening her attack on him’.
The taste of white bread did not cross my vestal lips until I was six, when the doctor recommended - before the days of fiber and oat bran - that it would be healthier for my grandmother.
The title of his film comes from Alexander Pope's poem ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, and the stanza goes: ‘How happy is the blameless vestal 's lot!
Whether Pope meant the line to be ironic or not, the poem clearly comes down on the side of earthly, physical love and remembering, as opposed to the ‘ vestals ’ who have never lived at all and have nothing to forget.
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