单词	harpy
释义	harpyhar‧py /ˈhɑːpi $ ˈhɑːrpi/ noun (plural harpies) [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINharpy Origin: 1800-1900 Harpy name of a creature in ancient Greek stories with the head of a woman and the body of a bird (16-21 centuries), from Greek harpyia ‘seizer’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS McAllister wanted to go in and do something, anything, to stop such a harpy from hurting him. That was when, with a glass-cracking shriek, the harpy brought him down from behind. The harpies from Paris running the road houses which must inevitably multiply will be a worse scourge than the mosquitoes. 1literary a cruel woman2Harpy a cruel creature in ancient Greek stories, with the head and upper body of a woman and the wings and feet of a bird
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