英：[ˈsɪlflaɪk]
sylphlike如何读
sylphlike是什么意思
- adj.空气精灵一般的；窈窕的
sylphlike英英释义
noun
an elemental being in the theory of Paracelsus that inhabits air
a slender graceful woman or girl
sylphlike词源英文解释
New Latin sylphus
The first known use of sylph was in 1657
sylphlike儿童词典英英释义
Tagalognoun
a member of a people of the Philippine island of Luzon
the language of the Tagalog people
tack1 of 3verb
to fasten or attach especially with tacks
to join in a slight or hasty manner
to add on in order to complete
to change the direction of a sailing ship by shifting the sails
to change from one tack to another
to follow a zigzag course
tack2 of 3noun
a small short sharp-pointed nail usually with a broad flat head
the direction a ship is sailing as shown by the position the sails are set in
on the port tack
a change of course from one tack to another
a zigzag movement on land
a course or method of action
try a new tack
a slight or temporary sewing or fastening
tack3 of 3noun
stable gearespecially: equipment (as a saddle and bridle) for use on a saddle horse
tabornoun
a small drum with one head used to accompany a pipe played by the same person
tabernaclenoun
often capitalized a tent used as a place of worship by the Israelites during their wanderings in the wilderness with Moses
archaic a dwelling place
a locked box used to hold Communion breads
a house of worship
systematizeverb
to make into or arrange according to a system
synonymousadjective
alike in meaning
suggesting the same thing
a brand name that is synonymous with quality
syncopateverb
to cut short : clip, abbreviate
to change or affect (musical rhythm) by syncopation
symptomaticadjective
being a symptom (as of disease)
an itchy skin rash is symptomatic of poison ivy
concerned with, affecting, or having symptoms
a symptomatic patient
showing a quality or identity : characteristic
symbolizeverb
to serve as a symbol of
sylphnoun
a slender graceful woman or girl
sylphlike 例句
1 When Cher first appeared on TV—a 25-year-old sylph cracking wise in spangly couture alongside her shorter, older, mustachioed husband—millions of people watched her every week, the kind of market share that’s basically inconceivable 51 years later.
2 I’d seen Bell onstage, severe and sylphlike in the musicals “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” and “Ghost Quartet,” and knew enough of her experimental music to feel curious.
3 A dress wonderfully becoming to a slender sylphlike girl may become a tragedy on her plump classmate.
4 Dories and dingbats! as if my sylphlike form could bother this staunch craft!
5 Against the sombre background the arbor-vitae made, her slight figure, clad in soft, clinging white, seemed airy and sylphlike.
6 You're not exactly sylphlike, are you?' she said to her fat friend.
｀你并不算苗条，对吧?＇她对她那胖胖的朋友说。
7 Ms. Waters glided onto the New York avant-garde in 1965, at the age of 19, startling those around her with a sylphlike voice and a haunted air.
8 Halley, a tough-talking sylph with a robust scattering of tattoos and cellophane-blue hair, is practically a kid herself.
9 Yet, even while her spirit drooped with that apprehension, the picture was but the masculine counterpart of Sylph Etherege's sylphlike beauty.
10 A figure of medium height, neither sylphlike nor slender, but of full physical outline, in points even imposing.
11 From afar, thanks to her class privilege and sheer force of personality, Lavinia succeeds in looking like an effortless sylph.
12 Natalie, a sylphlike figure in black, sympathizes with her middle-aged, bumbling colleague, partly because of her own relationship with another woman and the related growing pains.
13 The Louisville Ballet is redesigning the context of the ballet, but the classic story begins when a young groom is awakened on his wedding day by a kiss from a sylph.
14 Then, her mouth was really shaped like a Cupid's bow, and her teeth were dazzling; also she had a wealth of dense, soft, brown hair and a tall, sylphlike, slimly-rounded figure.
15 PALATINE, Ill. — Tall and sylphlike, an athlete with delicate features and a blond topknot, she changes clothes behind a privacy curtain in the girls’ locker room at her high school.
16 Although now sylphlike, she says that she was overweight when she began college and has written about her triumphant 30-pound weight loss.
17 Most of it was shot in California, where Hepburn — then a brand-new mother, despite her sylphlike shape — relocated to Coldwater Canyon.
18 Her drummer and keyboardist, the sum total of her accompaniment, wore feather headdresses; she stalked the stage, sylphlike, in a diaphanous white cloak.
19 One visitor whose sylphlike days were long behind her was heard to grouse, “You really have to have a wasp waist to wear these clothes.”
20 For at this writing in those parts the slender, sylphlike string-bean is not playing a minor part, as with us.