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fairy ring

仙人指路,仙女戒指,仙女环,仙戒

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of numerous mushrooms of meadows and open woods, especially the well-known Marasmius oreades, that spread in rings originating from mycelial growth: formerly supposed to mark the paths laid by dancing fairies.

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  • A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.

  • These brave souls took an icy dip in the ocean to ring in 2015 and raise money for charity.

  • Some things never change as we wring out the old year and ring in the new one.

  • What was this human being fighting for everywhere but inside a ring?

  • They opened for acts like Elliott Smith, Sloan, and Promise Ring.

  • When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.

  • I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

  • I desired the captain would please to accept this ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused.

  • The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

  • The Elizabethan pipes were so small that now when they are dug up in Ireland the poor call them 'fairy pipes' from their tininess.