golden girl

短语

词形变化

golden girls 复数 golden girls

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A girl or young woman who has become unusually successful at an early age.

  2. 2.

    A favored girl, held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.

  3. 3.

    A young woman who is beautiful in a wholesome and healthy way.

    In her day, Betty Grable was the golden girl of America.

  4. 4.

    An older woman, a female senior citizen.

    非正式

    Ha ha, we were teasing our mom that she's a golden girl now.

词源

The senior citizen sense was inspired by a TV show in the 1980s, The Golden Girls, about a group of friends. The show's title was inspired by the traditional senses of the term but seems also to have been a play on golden years and silver-haired.

来源：wiktionary