fairyland
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The land or abode of fairies.
— These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.
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Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere.
— No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.
- Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).
形容词 adj.
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Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.
— The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.
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词源
词源 1
From fairy + land.
词源 2
From fairy + land.
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