Houri

(noun.) (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise.

校对:伍德罗

• Where was the beautiful black-eyed Houri whose appearance in the first charade had caused such delight? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle- eyes, houri forms, and all! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Thy wife or thy daughter, that Eastern houri that thou lockest under thy arm as thou wouldst thy treasure-casket? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• That houri, appearing, shakes him up in the usual manner and is charged by the old gentleman to remain near him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

校对:路易斯