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。