A capricious mind can never rule the sylphs, nor a fickle disposition the undines'.

反复无常的头脑永远无法统治风精， 反复无常的性情也无法统治水精灵。

Not that Rosamond was in the least like a kitten: she was a sylph caught young and educated at Mrs. Lemon's.

并不是说罗莎蒙德一点也不像一只小猫：她是一个在幼年时被抓到并在莱蒙夫人家接受教育的精灵。

I was forgetting where and who I was, to live the life of elves and sylphs, the fanciful creation of Scandinavian superstitions.

我忘记了自己在哪里、是谁，过着精灵和精灵的生活，这是斯堪的纳维亚迷信的幻想创造。

But it was thought that in the same manner as man by his union with God had won a spark of divinity, so might the sylphs, gnomes, undines, and salamanders by an alliance with man partake of his immortality.

但人们认为，就像人类通过与上帝的结合赢得了神性的火花一样，精灵、侏儒、水仙和火蜥蜴也可能通过与人类结盟而分享他的不朽。