Definition of mermaid in English:

mermaid

noun ˈməːmeɪdˈmərˌmeɪd

A mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair.
美人鱼（神话中虚构的半人形海上生物，有女性的头和躯干、鱼尾，一般被描绘得十分美丽，有金色飘逸长发）
Example sentencesExamples
- The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish.
- Fabulous sea creatures, giant fish, mermaids and dolphins circulate through the hulls of wrecked ships.
- There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
- Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate.
- In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line.
- The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements.
- There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures.
- With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
- It had carvings of mytholical creatures; mermaids and fairies seemed to be most of them.
- With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
- The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails.
- When she was a child, her nanny regaled her with stories about mermaids and other sea creatures.
- Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did.
- His ears look like those sometimes depicted on mermaids, fine webbing, the usual wavelike sea-creature pattern, and gray.
- Iphigenia suddenly realized without her mermaid's tail, she might not be able to swim at all.
- And then, from the depths of the sea, beautiful mermaids swam up.
- It was made out of dark cherry wood and gold leafed in the mermaids and fish carved into the legs of the table and chairs.
- Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
- Ancient maps contained only the sea, colored with symbols such as mermaids, fish or vessels while the land was empty.
- A group of beautiful red-haired mermaids were all screeching at the top of their lungs.

Origin

Middle English: from mere² (in the obsolete sense 'sea') + maid.

marine from Middle English:
The root of marine is Latin mare ‘sea’, the source also of mariner (Middle English), maritime (mid 16th century), and mermaid (Middle English). Marinate (mid 17th century) and marinade (late 17th century) are closely related, having originally been used of pickles and coming from a word for ‘salt water, brine’. Marines were originally any men serving on board a ship, but later the meaning was restricted to troops who were trained to serve on land or sea, now particularly the Royal Marines or, in the USA, the Marine Corps. These facts shed little light on the likely source of the expression tell that to the marines, used to express disbelief. It may have begun with a remark made by King Charles II (1630–85). He advised that implausible tales should be checked out with sailors, who, being familiar with distant lands, might be the people best qualified to judge whether they were true or not. Another idea picks up a clue left in the longer version tell that to the horse marines. The horse marines were an imaginary troop of cavalry soldiers serving on board a ship, used as an image of total ineptitude or of people completely out of their natural element. The idea is that such people are so clueless that they will believe anything they are told.

Definition of mermaid in US English:

mermaid

nounˈmərˌmeɪdˈmərˌmād

A fictitious or mythical half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair.
美人鱼（神话中虚构的半人形海上生物，有女性的头和躯干、鱼尾，一般被描绘得十分美丽，有金色飘逸长发）
Example sentencesExamples
- The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails.
- There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things.
- Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did.
- A group of beautiful red-haired mermaids were all screeching at the top of their lungs.
- Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons.
- With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
- Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate.
- His ears look like those sometimes depicted on mermaids, fine webbing, the usual wavelike sea-creature pattern, and gray.
- Ancient maps contained only the sea, colored with symbols such as mermaids, fish or vessels while the land was empty.
- With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete.
- And then, from the depths of the sea, beautiful mermaids swam up.
- The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements.
- Iphigenia suddenly realized without her mermaid's tail, she might not be able to swim at all.
- There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures.
- It was made out of dark cherry wood and gold leafed in the mermaids and fish carved into the legs of the table and chairs.
- It had carvings of mytholical creatures; mermaids and fairies seemed to be most of them.
- In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line.
- When she was a child, her nanny regaled her with stories about mermaids and other sea creatures.
- Fabulous sea creatures, giant fish, mermaids and dolphins circulate through the hulls of wrecked ships.
- The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish.

Origin

Middle English: from mere (in the obsolete sense ‘sea’) + maid.

词汇	mermaid
释义	Definition of mermaid in English: mermaid noun ˈməːmeɪdˈmərˌmeɪd A mythical sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair. 美人鱼（神话中虚构的半人形海上生物，有女性的头和躯干、鱼尾，一般被描绘得十分美丽，有金色飘逸长发） Example sentencesExamples The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish. Fabulous sea creatures, giant fish, mermaids and dolphins circulate through the hulls of wrecked ships. There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things. Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate. In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line. The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements. There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures. With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete. It had carvings of mytholical creatures; mermaids and fairies seemed to be most of them. With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals. The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails. When she was a child, her nanny regaled her with stories about mermaids and other sea creatures. Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did. His ears look like those sometimes depicted on mermaids, fine webbing, the usual wavelike sea-creature pattern, and gray. Iphigenia suddenly realized without her mermaid's tail, she might not be able to swim at all. And then, from the depths of the sea, beautiful mermaids swam up. It was made out of dark cherry wood and gold leafed in the mermaids and fish carved into the legs of the table and chairs. Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons. Ancient maps contained only the sea, colored with symbols such as mermaids, fish or vessels while the land was empty. A group of beautiful red-haired mermaids were all screeching at the top of their lungs. Origin Middle English: from mere² (in the obsolete sense 'sea') + maid. marine from Middle English: The root of marine is Latin mare ‘sea’, the source also of mariner (Middle English), maritime (mid 16th century), and mermaid (Middle English). Marinate (mid 17th century) and marinade (late 17th century) are closely related, having originally been used of pickles and coming from a word for ‘salt water, brine’. Marines were originally any men serving on board a ship, but later the meaning was restricted to troops who were trained to serve on land or sea, now particularly the Royal Marines or, in the USA, the Marine Corps. These facts shed little light on the likely source of the expression tell that to the marines, used to express disbelief. It may have begun with a remark made by King Charles II (1630–85). He advised that implausible tales should be checked out with sailors, who, being familiar with distant lands, might be the people best qualified to judge whether they were true or not. Another idea picks up a clue left in the longer version tell that to the horse marines. The horse marines were an imaginary troop of cavalry soldiers serving on board a ship, used as an image of total ineptitude or of people completely out of their natural element. The idea is that such people are so clueless that they will believe anything they are told. Definition of mermaid in US English: mermaid nounˈmərˌmeɪdˈmərˌmād A fictitious or mythical half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair. 美人鱼（神话中虚构的半人形海上生物，有女性的头和躯干、鱼尾，一般被描绘得十分美丽，有金色飘逸长发） Example sentencesExamples The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails. There are elves and centaurs and unicorns and mermaids and flying lynxes and all shapes of mythical things. Wendy was surprised to find the girl also had humanoid legs, and not the tail that mermaids of myth did. A group of beautiful red-haired mermaids were all screeching at the top of their lungs. Over the past decades he has created a menagerie of animals and mythical creatures, including mermaids and two-headed dragons. With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals. Her day job involves research on mermaids, fantasy creatures as inaccessible as her ideal mate. His ears look like those sometimes depicted on mermaids, fine webbing, the usual wavelike sea-creature pattern, and gray. Ancient maps contained only the sea, colored with symbols such as mermaids, fish or vessels while the land was empty. With her tiny feet splayed in a ‘V’, the impression of a mermaid's forked tail is complete. And then, from the depths of the sea, beautiful mermaids swam up. The sea is the home of selkies, mermaids, these liminal creatures that slip back and forth between states as between elements. Iphigenia suddenly realized without her mermaid's tail, she might not be able to swim at all. There were many beautiful and strange statues of mermaids and dragons and other mystical creatures. It was made out of dark cherry wood and gold leafed in the mermaids and fish carved into the legs of the table and chairs. It had carvings of mytholical creatures; mermaids and fairies seemed to be most of them. In Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaids are unbelievably beautiful, and a male would not have had that lightness of line. When she was a child, her nanny regaled her with stories about mermaids and other sea creatures. Fabulous sea creatures, giant fish, mermaids and dolphins circulate through the hulls of wrecked ships. The puppet characters will include magical sea creatures such as mermaids and jellyfish. Origin Middle English: from mere (in the obsolete sense ‘sea’) + maid.
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