Married women could certainly be spinsters.

已婚妇女当然是“spinsters”（纺纱者）。

And for a long time provided needy spinsters with parcels of land.

而且在相当长一段时期里，向贫困的老而未婚的女子提供土地。

In America law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters.

在美国,法律与风俗习惯一样,是把基础置于老处女的梦想之上的.

Spin is the important element here, since at first spinsters were young women whose main labor was to work at spinning flax or sheep's-wool into tread or yarn.

纺纱是这个词里的一个重要因素，因为最初“spinsters”（纺纱者）是指那些主要从事纺织工作，将亚麻或羊绒纺成丝线的年轻姑娘。