英语释义

1. delicate, fairylike

2. lacking substance or purpose not practical
in … an airy-fairy, unserious, insufficiently careful fashion
— The Times Literary Supplement (London)

3. not having substance or purpose not practical

片语

fantastic古怪的人

romantic浪漫的；多情的；空想的

英汉例句

• i am also much more practical than i am airy-fairy about my choices — if it doesn’t work, i don’t care if i can eat it, i am not buying it/using it again.

  对于我的选择，我总是很实际而不是空想——如果这个东西没有用，我可不在乎它能不能吃，我不会再买或者用它了。

• they have frequently left devastation in their wake and have treated the public sector as dumping grounds for airy-fairy ideas such as 「transformation」 that have been rejected by the private sector.

  咨询师们从以前就经常把事情弄得一团糟，不断向公共部门倾销他们那些被私人机构拒之门外的渣滓童话理想，比如「转型改革」。

• he was supposed to give us advice, but this ideas were airy-fairy ideas.

  他应该给我们提些劝告，但他的主意都是不切实际的。

• no dreamy airy-fairy world. don't let them float about. give them reality. they can be poets, but use real images like blake did.

  出有梦幻当鄙子天下。没有要让他们正在个中飘然。给他们实正在。他们会是墨客，但是操做实正在的形象，便像布莱克那样。

• he was supposed to give us advice, but all he came up with were airy-fairy ideas.

  他应该给我们提些劝告，但他所想出来的一切是不切实际的。

• this may all sound a bit airy-fairy given that so many companies are struggling just to survive the recession.

  在许多公司都在经济萧条中力求生存的情况下，这些听着有点不太切合实际。