ethereal
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- adj. 天上的；輕的；像空氣的
英英釋意
- 1. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air;
- "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle
- "aerial fancies"
- "an airy apparition"
- "physical rather than ethereal forms"
- 2. of or containing or dissolved in ether;
- "ethereal solution"
- 3. of heaven or the spirit;
- "celestial peace"
- "ethereal melodies"
- "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"
- 4. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy;
- "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"
- "gossamer shading through his playing"