confirmed bachelor
noun [ C ] old-fashioned uk/kənˌfɜːmd ˈbætʃ.əl.ər/ us/kənˌfɝːmd ˈbætʃ.əl.ɚ/
未婚且不会结婚的男子（过去有时用来意指同性恋男子）
a man who has never married and is thought unlikely ever to marry; sometimes used in the past to suggest that a man was gay
The confirmed bachelor, who is 48 years old, argues that his sexual orientation is no one's business. 这位48岁仍单身的男子认为他的性取向与他人无关。
He was thirty-eight and a confirmed bachelor, or so everyone thought, but on their second meeting he proposed. 他38岁仍然未婚，大家也都认为他不会结婚，但是在他们第二次见面时，他就求婚了。
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- He was the subject of rumours - said to be what was once called "a confirmed bachelor".
- During the 1950s this confirmed bachelor met and married an American divorcee.
- At that time my father was beginning to be known as a confirmed bachelor, but he met my mother and fell desperately in love.
- Though he was occasionally referred to as "a confirmed bachelor", he chose not to "come out" to the general public.
- He plays Harry, a confirmed bachelor and ladies' man who despite his own advancing years only dates women under 30.