fey是什么意思？

fey

英[feɪ] 美[fe]

• adj. 古怪的， 非现世的，怪异的， 异想天开的；

例句

• Fey enjoy sexual and emotional dalliances with creatures of all kinds. 精类生物喜爱和各种生物调情并勾引他们.
• She's got that fey look as though she's had breakfast with a leprechaun ( Dorothy Burnham ) 她一副超凡脱俗的样子,仿佛刚与小仙人共进过早餐似的 ( 多萝西伯纳姆 )
• Elves share a passionate and emotional nature with many of their fey cousins. 精灵和他们的fey同胞一样,天生感情丰富.
• They are no longer anything like as fey and reserved as they once were. 他们不再像从前那样羞怯矜持了。
• Her fey charm and eccentric ways were legendary. 她难以捉摸的魅力和怪异的行事方式都成了传奇。
• They are no longer anything like as fey and reserved as they once were... 他们不再像从前那样羞怯矜持了。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  忸怩的;幼稚的;神经兮兮的
  If you describe someone as fey, you mean that they behave in a shy, childish, or unpredictable way, and you are often suggesting that this is unnatural or insincere.
  例句
  They are no longer anything like as fey and reserved as they once were... 他们不再像从前那样羞怯矜持了。 Her fey charm and eccentric ways were legendary. 她难以捉摸的魅力和怪异的行事方式都成了传奇。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. slightly insane
  2. suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;
  "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning""the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown