“剩女(leftover women)”这个词被用来指那些在二十八九岁，甚至更大年龄仍未结婚的女性。有些人认为“剩女”是需要认真对待的社会力量,而另一些人则主张这个词应被视为褒义词，意思是“成功女性”。据2010年的中国婚姻调查 (Chinese National Marriage Survey)报道，90%的男人认为女人应该在27岁之前结婚。在中国，大部分“剩女”都是受过良好教育的中产阶级。跟以前几代人相比，如今的女性更加自由，更能够独立生活。
参考译文：
“Leftover women”is a term that refers to women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond.Some people regard leftover women as a social force to be reckoned with”,while others have argued that the term should be taken as a positive term to mean“successful women”.In a 2010 Chinese National Marriage Survey,it was reported that 9 out of 10 men believe that women should be married before they are 27 years old.In China leftover women are mostly well-educated middle class.Women today are more free and able to live independently in comparison to previous generations.
剩女： leftover woman
3S lady：她们也被称为“3S女人”Single(单身)、 Seventies (大多数生于上世纪七十年代)、Stuck(被卡住了)。 “剩女”是指那些大龄女青年，一群在婚姻上得不到理想归宿的高学历、高收入的大龄女青年。这些人一般生活独立，条件比较优越。;
[例句]为什么你到现在还是剩女?
How are you still single?
扩展阅读：剩女的其他表达方式
“Leftover ladies” ：“leftover”这个词可没有什么积极的意思，表示“剩货，残留物，剩饭”等。
“on the shelf”来形容“剩女”：我们常常形容一个计划或者一件事情推迟被执行，叫做put it on the shelf。on the shelf 也用来形容那些还没有结婚的女性，
