- 1空靈的、有精靈氣的（文雅詞；中文沒有完全對上的日常說法，不要想成「神經病」那麼重）
If you call someone fey, you mean they seem not quite of ordinary earth: very sensitive, a little strange in how they talk or move, as if part of them is elsewhere. It can sound almost kind — , , lightly magical — or it can sound as if you find them too delicate, too floaty, not practical. It is a word. You meet it in novels and careful descriptions, not much in the street. Though actually, English has long had two words written the same way. One old Germanic fey meant 'doomed to die' or already marked by death, a literary and Scottish use. The other comes from the French fairy family: a person or place with a magical air. The meaning here — strange, sensitive, not quite of this world — sits with that fairy stream. In later writing the two have bled together a little, so a fey person may sound both fragile and slightly magical. It is not a medical word, and it is not automatically ; the speaker's tone does the work.
組成For this sense: from Middle English faie, fei (a place or person with magical properties), from Middle French feie, fee (fairy), from Old French fae, from Medieval Latin fāda — the same stream as fairy. A different older word, also spelled fey, meant 'doomed to die', from Old English fǣġe; that is not this sense.
同家族的字
- fairysame French and Latin stream; fey in this sense is the not-quite-earthly cousin
- faeanother English form of that same fairy word
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Feyname
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A surname.
feyadj詞源 1/feɪ/
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archaicdialectalAbout to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.
- Surely the Gods have made him fey, having ordained his destruction and our humbling before these Demons.
- Then Fëanor laughed as one fey, and he cried: “None and none! What I have left behind I count now no loss; needless baggage on the road it has proved. Let those that cursed my name, curse me still, and whine their way back to the cages of the Valar! Let the ships burn!”
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obsoleteDying; dead.
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Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.
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Overrefined, affected.
- His interlocutor was whimsical if not downright fey. He pushed his spectacles to the top of his nose. He shoved them into his greying locks like an effeminate racing driver. He gave Pym sherry and put a hand on his backside in order to propel him to a long window that gave on to a row of council houses.
- Hoffman does not rely on his talent to carry him through a role. He spent five and a half months transmuting himself into Capote. … He lost 40 pounds and practiced the inscrutable voice and fey mannerisms for an hour or two every day.
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Strange or otherworldly.
- Gratefully she crooned with them, so inimitably that old Christine Inglis, on her way to early Mass, vowed the girl was fey.
- Local opinion held Mr. Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg, a name Mr. Underwood had done his best to live down.
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Spellbound.
feyadj詞源 2/feɪ/
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Magical or fairylike.
feynoun詞源 2/feɪ/
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fictionhuman-sciencesliteratureA fairy.
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Fairy folk collectively.
feyverb詞源 4/feɪ/
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obsoletedialectalTo cleanse.
- to fey a drain or ditch
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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