| 词组 | nubile |
| 释义 | nubile Nubile, much more often used of young women than of young men, originally meant "of marriageable age or condition." This sense is still in use: • ... a marriageable young lady she had ... the most lithe and graspable of waists, in an age that greatly admired such a thing in a nubile female — Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 1980 It is easy to see how this use was extended to mean "sexually attractive." The extended sense has apparently been in American use since about the 1950s and in British use since the 1960s: • ... the nubile chorus line at the Folies-Bergere — N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Mar. 1951 Birds of Britain is not a new Audubon but a fleshly paradise of nubile young women —Times Literary Supp., 14 Dec. 1967 The few usage writers who mention this development (Bernstein 1971, Copperud 1970, 1980) do not find it at all troublesome. |
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