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airy ['єәri]

a. 空气的, 空中的, 通风的, 幻想的, 轻快的

Nothing results from his airy plan.
他那不切实际的计划毫无结果。
The large window makes the room seem airy.
那扇大窗户使这间房间显得很通风。
An airy mood.
快活的心情

airy
airier, airiest

[ adj ]

open to or abounding in fresh air

<adj.all>

airy rooms

not practical or realizable; speculative

<adj.all>

airy theories about socioeconomic improvement

visionary schemes for getting rich

having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air

<adj.all>

airy gauze curtains

characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air

<adj.all>

figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away

aerial fancies

an airy apparition

physical rather than ethereal forms

Airy \Air"y\, a.
1. Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts
of bodies.

2. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; a["e]rial; as,
an airy flight. ``The airy region.'' --Milton.

3. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy;
as, an airy situation.

4. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material;
airlike. ``An airy spirit.'' --Shak.

5. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful; as,
airy music.

6. Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty;
trifling; visionary. ``Airy fame.'' --Shak.

Empty sound, and airy notions. --Roscommon.

7. Light of heart; vivacious; sprightly; flippant;
superficial. ``Merry and airy.'' --Jer. Taylor.

8. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting
on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

9. (Paint.) Having the light and a["e]rial tints true to
nature. --Elmes.

According to federal inspection reports, the slaughter of beef cows this year through the first week in August totaled about 1.89 million head, down 9 percent from the same period in 1987. airy cow slaughter, at 1.66 million head, dropped 3 percent.
The scene is wonderfully airy and convivial, like the opera itself.
The title track has warm, airy tones, though with Lloyd's signature runs that pull a quirky riff from the outer reaches of a scale.
Younger fans will like his airy organza dresses and off-the-shoulder minis in harlequin or bold fruit and flower prints.
The interior is trim, airy, acoustically excellent, comfortable to sit in (it holds an audience of about 475 people), and pleasing to behold.
Its inconspicuous exterior hides airy, white-washed salons, dotted with Renaissance artefacts. In other respects too, appearances mislead.
' 'Oh, Howard, don't worry,' ' Davies recounts in a passable Brummy accent from his airy office high above London.
'Now one of the capitalists has broken ranks,' commented the FT's correspondent in Johannesburg at the time, 'it is no longer possible to dismiss unbundling as an airy Marxist fancy.
Sheer fabrics in prints look appropriate with the light and airy wedding dresses which are popular now.
The idea is effective, but is, I suspect, for another, less airy ballet.
Tobias Hoheisel's high, airy sets, basically screens and scrim, are cleverly lit by Paul Pyant.
At Greys Court near Henley, Oxfordshire, you can see an airy arch of pink-flowered acacias.
His free, airy, impressionist style that turned on hard-core jazzers as well as rock fans is both personal and political, a departure from elevator jazz or what he calls hip Muzak.
Ms. Anderson had asked that the air conditioning be turned off while she was on stage (wearing an airy, veiled costume with sea-green pantaloons I wanted for myself in a larger size).
Nadia Comaneci, who vaulted gracefully into American hearts as a tiny gymnast performing airy gyrations in the 1976 Olympics, has leaped what remains of the Iron Curtain to come live in America.
If her duets with Saltarin barely reached blood heat it was not her fault nor that of Rizzi, who conducted a beautifully buoyant account of the score, full of airy textures and athletic rhythms.

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