单词 | mermaid |
释义 | mermaid From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Folkloremermaidmer‧maid /ˈmɜːmeɪd $ ˈmɜːr-/ noun [countable]RFin stories, a woman who has a fish’s tail instead of legs and who lives in the seaExamples from the Corpusmermaid• There was a mermaid there, too.• A mermaid with dark, tangled hair.• The lobby is graced with a fountain bearing a crystal mermaid.• At Starbucks' corporate headquarters, the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.• It's a spell, you see, the mermaid has the power to cast spells.• Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.Origin mermaid (1300-1400) → MERE2 + maid |
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