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sylph

/silf/US // sɪlf //UK // (sɪlf) //

蚜虫,幽兰,幽兰花,蚜虫病

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a slender, graceful woman or girl.
    • : one of a race of supernatural beings supposed to inhabit the air.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • On finding himself the object of our attention, the man vanished with the swiftness of a sylph.

  • But no sylph came again; no form rivaled the zephyr before me.

  • One word again made me a captive: that word was now "Lafontaine;" and at the same moment I saw the sylph bounding to my side.

  • "Wait in this spot until I return," was all that I heard, before he and the sylph had waltzed away far down the hall.

  • Fanciful as it may seem, the little sylph bore a striking resemblance to the flower from which she sprung.