Nymph

(noun.) a larva of an insect with incomplete metamorphosis (as the dragonfly or mayfly).

(noun.) (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; 'the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water'.

(noun.) a voluptuously beautiful young woman.

艾达整理

• Are you Nymph, Dryad, or Oread? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Perchance some nymph bore me to one of the old gods, who Heine says yet walk the earth in other forMs What do you know of Heine? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• If you saw a nymph you would go mad, remarked Maurice, alluding to the old Greek superstition. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Then does she twirl and twine, a pastoral nymph of good family, through the mazes of the dance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I need not tell you she was very beautiful, for that is the common saying of lovers, who see no loveliness save in the nymph of their affections. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• If you hunted there, Caliphronas, you would meet Bacchus and his crew, but no nymph. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• River nymphs, sea nymphs, I do not mind in the least! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• A modern steamer, with a noisy screw beating the waters, is enough to scare away all the nymphs in the vicinity. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• You had better beware, Caliphronas, as the nymphs might take a fancy to you as they did to Hylas. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• In old times the woods and solitudes were made joyous to the shepherd by the imaginary piping and dancing of Pan and the nymphs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Wild roses red as dawn When nymphs awaken, Frail lilies white and wan As love forsaken. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Then they slipped ashore and ran into the grove again, like nymphs. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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