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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
  1. 1

    plural dry·ads, dry·a·des [drahy-uh-deez]. /ˈdraɪ əˌdiz/. Classical Mythology.

    • : a deity or nymph of the woods.

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Examples

  • "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.