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单词 supernatural
释义
supernatural
(spəʳnætʃrəl )
adjective B2
Supernatural creatures, forces, and events are believed by some people to exist or happen, although they are impossible according to scientific laws.
The Nakani were evil spirits who looked like humans and possessed supernatural powers.
...supernatural beings.
Synonyms: paranormal, mysterious, unearthly, uncanny  
The supernatural is things that are supernatural.
He writes short stories with a touch of the supernatural.
Quotations:
There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
William ShakespeareHamlet
Collocations:
supernatural abilities
Even after her first arrest, some remained convinced of her supernatural abilities.
Times, Sunday Times
Supernatural abilities are needed to untangle the mess.
Christianity Today
Many of the characters are humans with superhuman strength, speed and/or supernatural abilities.
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As in many other traditions around the world, cats are frequently objects of fear and mistrust, with various supernatural abilities ascribed to them.
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When possessing a body, dextriers can use a number of supernatural abilities, including flight, fire-breathing, and enhanced strength.
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supernatural drama
Series six of the supernatural drama picks up a few months from when we left it.
The Sun
This supernatural drama doesn't disappoint — it begins with a terrible incident in a hospital and gets not that much cheerier from there.
Times, Sunday Times
Intriguingly plotted supernatural drama that falls a bit flat.
The Sun
The sophisticated supernatural drama ramps up the chill factor.
The Sun
It's an effective ending to a decent supernatural drama.
Times, Sunday Times
supernatural element
A number of the short stories have a supernatural element.
The Times Literary Supplement
It further contains within its very core an awesome supernatural element, setting the bearer apart from all others.
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Academic analysis of the episode has placed it within a science-fiction tradition that attributes a powerful, supernatural element to physical contact with aliens.
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You can upgrade your character between waves, post scores online and combine gunpower with supernatural elements in more depth than you could in the original title.
The Sun
As pirates were gradually divested of their ability to scare, ghosts and other supernatural elements began to permeate their stories.
The Times Literary Supplement
supernatural gift
But a few days ago, a friend gave us a supernatural gift, although she didn't call it that.
Christianity Today
But to bodge in style, a person needs to have an affinity with wood, the ability to focus on repetitive tasks and a supernatural gift for measurement.
Times, Sunday Times
He has a supernatural gift for reading people's minds.
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He has the supernatural gift of being able to speak with the voices of deceased people he has never met.
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Prosecutors believe that he may have claimed to have supernatural gifts to win donations from wealthy patrons.
Times, Sunday Times
supernatural presence
A 19th-century family experiences an apparently supernatural presence in their home and come to suspect that a witch has cursed them.
The Sun
During their successful mission both men have some appreciation of being under surveillance by a supernatural presence.
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As his senses are literally dulled, his imagination helps him sense the spirit's supernatural presence.
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A universe with a supernatural presence would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without.
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Subjects scoring their own performance in a test behaved more honestly when it was suggested there could be a supernatural presence in the room with them.
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supernatural tale
A supernatural tale might seem to sit a little uneasily in one of the world's great scientific institutions.
Times, Sunday Times
It has recently received acclaim as one of the most original supernatural tales of the 20th century.
Times, Sunday Times
And other supernatural tales 256pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
His anthologies in the 1980s and 1990s unearthed rare supernatural tales, many of whose authors' original collections of stories have been reprinted in the last decade.
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supernatural thriller
You can't do better than this supernatural thriller.
The Sun
Like the characters it portrays, the film can't move on and remains, for more than two hours, stuck in a kind of cinematic limbo between supernatural thriller and family drama.
Times, Sunday Times
A first-rate supernatural thriller with hidden depths.
Times, Sunday Times
Even she's questioning her sanity in the second episode of this scary supernatural thriller.
The Sun
I had been discouraged from writing a supernatural thriller by everybody, for obvious reasons.
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Translations:
Chinese: 超自然的
Japanese: 超自然の
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