sylph

[silf]

n. 空气精灵, 身材苗条的女人

词形变化：

名词: syllogization | 动词过去式: syllogized | 动词过去分词: syllogized | 动词现在分词: syllogizing | 动词第三人称单数: syllogizes |

n.

1. 气精

2. 窈窕淑女

3. 一种蜂鸟

sylph

词形变化：

名词: syllogization | 动词过去式: syllogized | 动词过去分词: syllogized | 动词现在分词: syllogizing | 动词第三人称单数: syllogizes |

词义辨析：

同义参见:

fairy

sylph[silf]n.1.■窈窕淑女；体态轻盈的女子(或少妇)2.■(想像中生活在空中的)气精，气仙3.■【鸟类】长叉尾蜂鸟

1. an imaginary spirit of the air
   气精，气仙，空气精灵
   ■a slender woman or girl
   身材苗条的女人
   
2. a mainly dark green and blue hummingbird, the male of which has a long forked tail
   长叉尾蜂鸟
   
3. Genus Aglaiocercus (and Neolesbia), family Trochilidae: three species
   长尾蜂鸟属和黑领鹎属，蜂鸟科: ３种
   

1. mid 17th cent.: from modern Latin sylphes, sylphi and the German plural Sylphen, perhaps based on Latin sylvestris 'of the woods' + nympha 'nymph'
   

sylph

名词 sylph:

a slender graceful young woman

an elemental being believed to inhabit the air

sylph

■"There, my sweet Sylph, " he exclaimed.

" “好啦，我可爱的仙女，”他大声叫道。

■Venezuelan Sylph

n. 南美长尾蜂鸟

■Violet-tailed Sylph

n. 紫长尾蜂鸟

■Long-tailed Sylph

n. 长尾蜂鸟

■“Dearest Sylph!

“最亲爱的仙女！

■"Who calls me Sylph?

“谁叫我仙女？”

■Yet, the picture showed a sylph-like beauty quite like that of Sylph Etherege's own.

但画像上的天仙之美很像仙女?埃瑟里奇的美。

■You compare her with your English women who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find her a sylph.

你们的英国女人每天狼吞虎咽地吃上三到五餐肉食,你们拿她来比她们,当然觉得她是个窈窕仙女了.

■You compare her with your English --- women who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find her a sylph.

你们英国女人每天狼吞虎咽地吃上三粲到五粲的肉食，你们拿她来比她们，当然觉得她是窈窕仙女了。

■Where are you, sweet Sylph Etherege?

你在哪里，可爱的仙女?埃瑟里奇？

■On the river continent fish hawks barking; man of honour hotly pursues the sylph.

关关雎鸠，在河之洲；窈窕淑女，君子好逑。

■Gold-spotted Sylph

红斑黑弄蝶(弄蝶科)

■Sylph(Green-tail sylph)

绿尾峰鸟

■These wings are almost 2 body-lengths long, but fold up behind the sylph when they are on the ground.

翅膀差不多有身体二倍大-平时平展开来，当它们站在地面的时候，翅膀就收拢起来。

■The dancer was a graceful, elegant sylph upon the stage.

舞台上的舞者仿佛一个优美端庄的精灵。

■Awake, Sylph Etherege, awake to truth!

醒来吧，仙女?埃瑟里奇，回到真实世界中来吧！

■Your compare Nora with your English woman who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day; and naturally you find her a sylph.

（你们英国妇女每天狼吞虎咽吃上三五餐肉，把娜拉和她们相比自然会觉得她是个窈窕淑女了。）