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A fay is a fairy: a magical being from stories, often small, and often tied to woods, hills, or moonlight.
A fay fay is a fairy是一種fairy(仙子)a magical being from stories故事裡的魔法生物often small通常很小and often tied to woods, hills, or moonlight而且常常和森林、山丘或月光有關
This is an old, word. You almost never hear it in ordinary talk; people say fairy.
This is an old, bookish word這是一個古老、書面的詞You almost never hear it in ordinary talk你在日常對話裡幾乎不會聽到它people say fairy人們會說fairy
Poets like fay because it feels older and lighter, and it can fit the music of a line. Fantasy writers still use it, and you may also meet fae for fairy-folk as a group.
Poets like fay詩人喜歡用faybecause it feels older and lighter因為它聽起來比較古老、比較輕盈and it can fit the music of a line而且比較合詩句的音韻Fantasy writers still use it奇幻作家仍然會用它and you may also meet fae而你也可能會遇到faefor fairy-folk as a group指一整群的仙靈
The word itself does not tell you if the being is kind. In older poems a fay might be beautiful, tricky, or dangerous — sometimes all three.
The word itself does not tell you if the being is kind這個詞本身不會告訴你那個生物是不是善良的In older poems在較古老的詩裡a fay might be beautiful, tricky, or dangerous fay可能是美麗的、狡猾的，或危險的sometimes all three有時候三種都是
This is not a classroom word for “a nice little ”; it is a literary name, and it keeps a slightly wild edge.
This is not a classroom word for "a nice little sprite"這不是教科書裡形容『可愛小精靈』的詞it is a literary name它是一個文學用語and it keeps a slightly wild edge而且還保有一點野性
組成From Old French fae, a fairy — the same root as English fairy. Another English word spelled fay, meaning “to join,” has a different Germanic history; that is not this word.
原始詞典資料19 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Fayname/feɪ/
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An Anglo-Irish surname transferred from the nickname, Anglicized from de Fae a Norman family that settled in Ireland.
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A surname from Irish, anglicized from Ó Fiaich and Ó Fathaigh. (see Fahey.)
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A female given name, pet form of Faith or Frances; often used as a middle name.
- Fay Mortenson, 50, tells Them that she “dropped to the floor sobbing” after getting her 16-year-old son’s passport back with an “F” on it. When she saw in the State Department’s online database in February that the passport had been “approved,” Mortenson prayed that, for some reason, they had been spared the agonies others were suffering.
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fayverb詞源 1/feɪ/
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obsoleteTo fit, to add.
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businessmanufacturingshipbuildingTo join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
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businessmanufacturingshipbuildingOf pieces of timber: to lie close together.
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obsoleteTo fadge.
fayadj詞源 1/feɪ/
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Fitted closely together.
- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
faynoun詞源 2/feɪ/
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A fairy.
- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
- A Nimph is marryed to a Fay, Great preparations for the Day, All Rites of Nuptials they recite you, To the Brydall and inuite you.
fayadj詞源 2/feɪ/
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Fairy-like.
faynoun詞源 3/feɪ/
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obsoletefaith
- Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late. I'll to my rest.
- "Rash man," cried she, "how dost thou dare To come disturb my waters fair! "Thou shalt unto me plight thy fay, Or seven years thou shalt waste away, Or thou shalt die ere the third day." "To thee my faith plight will I ne'er, For I am married now a year."
fayverb詞源 4/feɪ/
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dialectalTo cleanse; clean out.
faynoun詞源 5/feɪ/
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slangA white person.
fayadj詞源 5/feɪ/
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slangWhite; white-skinned.
- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。