单词 | earth girl |
释义 | > as lemmasearth girl earth girl n. a girl who dwells on earth, as opposed to in heaven, the sea, etc.; (now) spec.(chiefly Science Fiction) a (young) female inhabitant or native of the planet earth; cf. earthwoman n. 3. ΚΠ 1858 Herald of Light June 57 The Heaven-girls are fond and true; the earth-girls are too often inconstant and cold at heart. 1903 Reader Mar. 468/2 The next [tale relates] how a small sea-maiden and a little earth-girl changed places. 1911 H. K. Vielé Girl from Mercury in Wit & Humor of Amer. IV. 793 The fancy took me to suspend intuition just to see how Earth girls feel. 2008 Sunday Star (Nexis) 6 July 27 The Man of Steel may have a rod of iron but his powers mean he could never make love to a normal earth girl. < as lemmas |
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