harpy

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈhɑːpi/    美 /ˈhɑɹpi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of a maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.
    — Both table and provisions vanish'd quite, With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard.
  2. A shrewish woman. derogatory
    — But her most subtle wiles proved ineffectual in ridding her, even for a moment, of her harpy jailer[…]
  3. One who is rapacious or ravenous; an extortioner.
    — c. 1772, Oliver Goldsmith, letter to Mrs. Bunbury The harpies about me all pocket the pool.
  4. Any of a number of eagle-like birds of prey of the subfamily Harpiinae, especially the species Harpia harpyja.
  5. The European moor buzzard or marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus).

词形变化

harpies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
harpy bat harpy eagle harpy fly harpyish harpylike
相关词
harridan

词源

Ultimately from Middle French harpie, from Latin harpyia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυιᾰ (hárpuiă, literally “snatcher”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch, seize”). Compare rapacious. Middle English had arpie.
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