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- (of a person or their face) small and delicate, typically with an attractively mischievous or strange charm（人或脸）小精灵似的; 娇小的; 小淘气的; 有奇异魅力的：
her black hair suited her elfin face.
她的黑头发与她小精灵似的脸很相配。
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- relating to elves与精灵有关的; 有魔力的, 有法术的：
an enchanted world of fairies in elfin glades.
林中仙女生活的魔幻世界。
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- archaic an elf〈古〉小精灵。
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- a small North American butterfly that is typically brownish with markings on the wing margins that give the impression of scalloped edges北美小灰蝶。
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- Genus Incisalia, family Lycaenidae.切纹翅蝶属, 灰蝶科。
词源
late 16th cent.: from LFE, probably suggested by Middle English elvene 'of elves', and by Elphin, the name of a character in Arthurian romance.