Sylph
[sɪlf]
解释:
(noun.) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air.
(noun.) a slender graceful young woman.
整理:帕斯夸里--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
(n.) Fig.: A slender, graceful woman.
(n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant South American humming birds, having a very long and deeply-forked tail; as, the blue-tailed sylph (Cynanthus cyanurus).
录入:罗兰
同义词及近义词：
n. Fairy, fay.
录入:奥利维尔
解释:
n. one of the elemental spirits of the air intermediate between immaterial and material beings occasionally holding intercourse with human creatures: a fairy.—n. Sylph′id a little sylph.—adjs. Sylph′ine Sylph′ish.
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娱乐性解释：
n. An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke sewer gas and similar products of civilization. Sylphs were allied to gnomes nymphs and salamanders which dwelt respectively in earth water and fire all now insalubrious. Sylphs like fowls of the air were male and female to no purpose apparently for if they had progeny they must have nested in inaccessible places none of the chicks having ever been seen.
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例句:
- Mrs Veneering, always charmed by this rattling sylph, cries. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She was a Fairy, a Sylph, I don't know what she was--anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon's. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
录入:门罗