sylph

基本解釋

You compare her with your English women who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day, and naturally you find her a sylph.
你們英國女人每天狼吞虎咽地吃上三五餐肉食，你拿她來同你們相比，自然覺得她是個窈窕仙女了。
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You compare her with your English women who wolf down from three to five meat meals a day ; and naturally you find her a sylph.
你們英國女人每天狼吞虎咽地吃上三餐到五餐肉食，你們拿他來比她們，當然覺得她是個窈窕仙女了。

One victim of the condition may have been Katharine Hepburn, who boasted of eating a pound of chocolates a day but kept her sylph-like figure to her death.
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Prospera has two minions at her disposal—the sylph Ariel (Ben Whishaw), a translucent pale hermaphrodite who digitally skitters through the air, and the very earthbound and lustful slave Caliban (Djimon Hounsou), an African man covered with mud.
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