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fey AHD[fā] D.J.[feɪ]K.K.[fe]adj.（形容词）- Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality:超自然的：具有或显示超俗的、有魔力的或似神仙的样子或性质的："She's got that fey look as though she's had breakfast with a leprechaun"(Dorothy Burnham)“她一副超凡脱俗的样子，仿佛刚与小仙人共进过早餐似的”(多萝西·伯纳姆)
- Having visionary power; clairvoyant.有预兆的：有眼光的；有超人的洞察力的
- Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.发疯的，古怪的：仿佛中了邪似的显得神经兮兮的或疯狂的
- Scots 【苏格兰】
- Fated to die soon.濒死的：注定很快就会死的
- Full of the sense of approaching death.强烈预感到临近死亡的
- Middle English feie [fated to die] 中古英语 feie [注定要死]
- from Old English fǣge 源自 古英语 fǣge
feyʹly adv.（副词）feyʹness n.（名词）注释- The history of the wordsfey and fay illustrates a rather fey coincidence. Our wordfay, "fairy, elf,” the descendant of Middle Englishfaie, "a person or place possessed of magical properties,” and first recorded around 1390,goes back to Old Frenchfae, "fairy,” the same word that has given usfairy. Fae in turn comes from Vulgar LatinFāta, "the goddess of fate,” from Latin fātum, "fate.” Iffay goes back to fate, so doesfey in a manner of speaking, for its Old English ancestorfǣge meant "fated to die.” The sense we are more familiar with, "magical or fairylike in quality,”seems to have arisen partly because of the resemblance in sound betweenfay and fey. fey 和 fay 两词的历史展示了一个十分奇特的巧合。 我们现在所使用的词fay, “神仙，小精灵，” 是中古英语faie, “具有魔力的人或地方”的派生词， 它首次记载于约1390年左右，回溯到古法语fae “神仙”， 这一词产生了我们现在的fairy。 Fae 依次产生于俗拉丁语Fata, “命运女神，”和拉丁语 fatum， “命运。” 如果fay 回到命运的意思， 可以说fey 也是如此， 因为其古英语原形f?ge 的意思即为“注定死亡。” 我们现在更熟悉的意思“性质上具有魔力的或似神仙的”，似乎部分是由于fay 和 fey 在读音上的相似而产生的
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