giving an impression of vague unworldliness 神秘古怪的;非现实的 his mother was a strange, fey woman. 他的母亲是一个神经兮兮的怪女人。 ■having supernatural powers of clairvoyance 超自然的,有魔法的 ■(chiefly Scottish)fated to die or at the point of death (主苏格兰)注定要死的;濒死的 now he is fey, he sees his own death, and I see it too. 现在他要死了,他看见了自己的死亡,我也看见了。
派生 feyly adverb feyness noun 语源
Old English fæge (in the sense 'fated to die soon'), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veeg and to German feige 'cowardly'