a fictitious or mythical half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish, conventionally depicted as beautiful and with long flowing golden hair 美人鱼(神话中虚构的半人形海上生物,有女性的头和躯干、鱼尾,一般被描绘得十分美丽,有金色飘逸长发)
语源
Middle English: from mere (in the obsolete sense 'sea') + maid