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词汇 elfin
释义 elfin
adjective
uk /ˈel.fɪn/ us /ˈel.fɪn/
used to describe a person who is small and delicate: 小巧玲珑的
Her features were small, almost elfin.她的五官很小,可以说是小巧玲珑。
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S, s
sampler
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Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people)

Examples of elfin


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Such elfin mischiefmakers should surely have lurked and scurried about the stage.
He was tall on rhetoric, but rather more elfin on prescription.
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He wears elfin chain mail and prefers garments of gray or blue-gray, wearing ornaments of silver or platinum.
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She is described as very small and lightly built, elfin-faced, with sun-tanned skin and wild, tangled black hair (dark green in the anime).
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This tiny endemic bird inhabits open brushy areas, paramo, and edges of elfin forest at altitudes from 1850 m to the highest peaks.
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It is an epiphyte growing on small trees and shrubs in elfin forest habitat.
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The vegetation in this area consists of hill dipterocarp forests, lower and upper montane forest, elfin woodland (mossy forest) and summit grasslands.
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The montane forests and elfin wood lands grow on the cool, moist, mountainous regions.
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The heroes from the downriver trip are taken in an elfin airship to the moon.
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Its natural habitats of tropical montane forest and elfin woodland at elevations between 800 and 940 m are often shrouded in cool, misty cloud cover.
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He's just a little, almost elfin creature who's not really out to hurt anybody or has any ill will or malice toward anybody.
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Other colloquial names include the vinegar cup and the brown ribbed elfin cup.
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He made reference to her elfin humor, a tropical vampishness that is irresistible charm.
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The mushrooms, commonly known as elfin saddles, are identified by their irregularly shaped caps, fluted stems, and fuzzy undersurfaces.
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It lives in the undergrowth of montane and elfin forests.
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