dryad
/drahy-uhd, -ad/US // ˈdraɪ əd, -æd //UK // (ˈdraɪəd, -æd) //
旱鸭子,旱魃,旱灾,旱地
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n.名词 noun
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plural dry·ads, dry·a·des [drahy-uh-deez]. /ˈdraɪ əˌdiz/. Classical Mythology.
- : a deity or nymph of the woods.
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"It should have opened and imprisoned you, as a truant dryad," said he.
Then in a flash Rhcus remembered his promise to the Dryad, and throwing away his dice, he hurried to the trysting-place.
Dryad spun about and threw her head far on one side to scan the whole bare room.
"You can't help not being a dryad," she said, and now she smiled, and her smile transformed her face as sunlight does a landscape.
You can almost fancy it some dryad decked for her bridal, in maidenly day-dreaming too lovely to last.
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