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air·y-fair·y AHD[ârʹē-fârʹē] 【多用于英国】 D.J.[ˈeəriːˈfeəriː]K.K.[ˈɛriˈfɛri]n.（名词）【复数】 air.y-fair.ies - An intellectual:知识分子："They'd wanted him for Ambassador in Paris but he'd turned it down; he'd no patience with the airy-fairies"(John le Carré)“他们想派他到巴黎担任大使，但他拒绝了；他没有耐心与知识分子打交道”(约翰·勒·卡里)
adj.（形容词）- So speculative, visionary, and flimsy as to lack all substance, purpose, and practicality:想象出来的；不切实际的：由于推测、空想、浮夸而缺乏实质、意图和实用性的："The issue . . . is largely obscured by an increasingly unreal debate about airy-fairy constitutional modalities"(Manchester Guardian Weekly)“这个问题…在很大程度上被关于不存在宪法形式的越来越多且不切实际的争论而掩盖”(曼彻斯特卫报周刊)
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