處女作指的是作家、導(dǎo)演、演員、歌手等的第一部作品。俗話(huà)說(shuō)，萬(wàn)事開(kāi)頭難。所以，不管他們的處女作能否一炮打響，讓他們一夜走紅，都會(huì)在他們的心里有特殊的位置，給他們留下很深的印象。

請(qǐng)看《中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)》相關(guān)報(bào)道：

Soon the job as an art designer could no longer satisfy him. He started writing scripts and in 1994, he got a bank loan for his maiden work.

"From the very beginning I was shooting film by loan," he says, "which gave me big pressure to perform well at box office, otherwise I could have gone to jail. People who are saying that Feng Xiaogang is more focused on market performance than artistic value don't know the hardships in my early days."

報(bào)道中說(shuō)，藝術(shù)設(shè)計(jì)的工作不久就不能滿(mǎn)足馮小剛，于是他開(kāi)始寫(xiě)劇本，并且在1994年為他的處女作拿到了一筆銀行貸款。馮小剛說(shuō)，從一開(kāi)始拍電影的時(shí)候，他就承受著票房壓力。如果票房不好，他可能會(huì)因?yàn)檫€不上貸款而進(jìn)監(jiān)獄。

這里的“maiden work”指的就是處女作，“work”是“作品”的意思。此外，與“maiden”一起構(gòu)成的詞還有“maiden sword”（新刀，尚未染過(guò)血的刀），“maiden battle”（第一仗）和“maiden trip”（首次航行）等。

（英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Linda 編輯）