nymph
英 [nɪmf]
美 [nɪmf]
助记提示
宁芙（Nymph）是希腊神话中次要的女神，有时也被翻译成精灵和仙女，也会被视为妖精的一员，出没于山林、原野、泉水、大海等地。是自然幻化的精灵，一般是美丽的少女的形象，喜欢歌舞。
2. 区分：lymph, nymph: 从它们的音译词的第一个汉字的发音的边音(l)与鼻音(n)就可以区分开来。
中文词源
nymph 少女，仙女来自拉丁语nympha,新娘，少女，半人半神的仙女，来自拉丁语nubere,结婚，词源同nubile,nuptial.
英文词源
- nymph
- nymph: [14] Greek númphē originally meant ‘bride’ (it was related to Latin nūbere ‘take a husband’, source of English connubial and nubile). It subsequently became extended, however, to ‘beautiful young woman’ and ‘female nature spirit, particularly one frequenting water’, and it was in the latter sense that the word first entered English, via Latin nympha and Old French nimphe. The original sense ‘bride’ lies behind nymphomania, coined in the second half of the 18th century.
=> connubial, nubile - nymph (n.)
- late 14c., "class of semi-divine female beings," from Old French nimphe (13c.), from Latin nympha "nymph, demi-goddess; bride, mistress, young woman," from Greek nymphe "bride, young wife," later "beautiful young woman," then "semi-divine being in the form of a beautiful maiden;" related to Latin nubere "to marry, wed" (see nuptial). Sub-groups include dryads, hamadryads, naiads, nereids, and oreads. Sense in English of "young woman, girl" is attested from 1580s. Meaning "insect stage between larva and adult" is recorded from 1570s. Related: Nymphal; nymphean.
双语例句
- 1. She fled as if she were a startled nymph.
- 她像一个受惊的仙女逃走了.
来自辞典例句
- 2. The nymph continued her flight with his plea half uttered.
- 他的恳求还没有说完,少女已经跑远了.
来自辞典例句
- 3. I used rather to like to fancy her a somewhat quiet and serious, yet fair nymph.
- 我向来比较喜欢把她想象成一个有点文静,一本正经而又美丽的山林女神.
来自辞典例句
- 4. Echo a nymph, used to be the goddess Juno's servant.
- 回声女仙是司婚姻女神的一个女仆.
来自互联网
- 5. The nymph do not contain any conventionally picturesque details.
- 画中的睡莲没有任何传统的逼真细节.
来自互联网