| 单词 | eerie |
| 释义 | eerie (ɪəri ) Word forms: eerier , eeriest adjective If you describe something as eerie, you mean that it seems strange and frightening, and makes you feel nervous. I walked down the eerie dark path. ...an eerie calm. Synonyms: uncanny, strange, frightening, ghostly eerily (ɪərɪli ) adverb Monrovia after the fighting is eerily quiet. Collocations: eerie effect The distance and the offset had an eerie effect. Times, Sunday Times They allow one to sing harmonies with oneself, to eerie effect. Times, Sunday Times Occasionally music steals across the waters, but nothing very soothing; a wash of minor atmosphere, punctuated with eerie effects. The Times Literary Supplement It's an eerie feeling being the only soul next to an empty carousel. The Sun It was an eerie feeling in the office — no more than 10% or 15% of us made it in. Times, Sunday Times The poem also suggests the eerie feeling of distance from one another that now shrouds our lives. Times,Sunday Times And you're also left with the eerie feeling that, given the amount of detail she's gone into, there's no way he won't know she's writing about him. Times, Sunday Times It's just got a really eerie feeling about it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was a full moon with a hazy ring around it, which gave the crumbling colonial buildings a dream-like, eerie glow. Times, Sunday Times The units, which she designed herself, are lit from within and their opaque glass fronts give off an eerie glow. Times, Sunday Times Although mechanical in result, these transformations may have been magically instigated, as they occur instantaneously with an eerie glow and sound effect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As she raises her arm to stop him, jewels on a golden bracelet emit a faint tinkle and eerie glow before dropping from her wrist as she dies. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For decades people have told of an eerie light that has preceded a large quake or accompanied it. Times, Sunday Times We're seeing our nation in a whole new, eerie light thanks to this show revealing all the weird stuff that's happened, practically on our doorstep. The Sun Also, at 1970s gigs the audience provided their own eerie light by holding cigarette lighters aloft in the ballads. Times, Sunday Times With eerie music, slow-motion sequences and a fondness for deep chiaroscuro, it comes on like a particularly long and mystical car ad. Times, Sunday Times Bursts of dry ice and eerie music are triggered by sensors. Times, Sunday Times There are also scary sounds like growls, eerie music, spooky voices, yelling, and so forth. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eerie music plays, and many tombstones with often humorous or morbid enscriptions can be seen by the side of the path. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The game was complimented for its eerie music. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sounds are not chromatic, yet still some tried to systematise and learn; others surrender to the often eerie noise. Times, Sunday Times He shapes his mouth into a cone and an eerie noise issues forth. Times, Sunday Times The room was rumored to emit eerie noises, and the door locking on its own. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fifteen rounds: what boxer wouldn't come thrillingly alive and feel somehow spiritually upheld in the face of such an eerie parallel? Times, Sunday Times The memento mori prescience of the novel's atmosphere found an eerie parallel in the author's own fate. Globe and Mail Some of the issues they confronted have eerie parallels in our own day. Christianity Today But his sentences had an eerie quality to me. Times, Sunday Times Initially just a costcutting measure, the moments of silence have an eerie quality that heightens the tension. Times, Sunday Times It's incredible, it's eerie quality about place. The Sun Perhaps it was the eerie quality of this sudden plunge that sparked a wave of selling elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times Unsurprisingly maybe, the sky was really grey, but he made it a vivid blue: this choice helps give the picture its seductive brightness, but also a still, slightly eerie quality. Times, Sunday Times From one edition to the next, the disappearance of dishes connected with certain people(s) was an eerie reminder of political whim. The Times Literary Supplement And his note serves as an eerie reminder that there's still more to learn about the these swirling gales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The production lines that once hummed to the sound of activity are now silent, but for the eerie reminder of unfinished cars hanging like skeletons. The Sun A dormitory of tiny bunk beds coated in the dust of two-and-a-half decades completes the eerie scene. The Sun For every riveting, eerie scene, there's another that looks like low-budget padding. Times, Sunday Times Gill then captured the eerie scene in series of photographs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Something in this eerie sight intrigued, worried and enticed the nerves. Times, Sunday Times In the early 1950s people near the line were treated to the eerie sight of a railway carriage ghosting along, apparently by itself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the eerie sights of morning, the snipers bang on the door. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An eerie silence settled over streets usually humming with traffic noise and sirens. The Sun An eerie silence descended, punctuated occasionally by the drone and whirr of the police helicopter searching nearby woodland. Times, Sunday Times Our electricity was suddenly cut off and in the eerie silence, the warning sirens started to roar. The Sun He swished his bat over his stumps in frustration as he left the crease and walked back to an eerie silence. Times, Sunday Times Suddenly an almighty crack shattered the eerie silence. Times, Sunday Times The final whistle brought an eerie sound: deathly silence. Times, Sunday Times This technique will give a very shrill, eerie sound, particularly useful in film music. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An eerie sound effect was used while the swirls were in motion, as well as during the window reveals following a bonus round win. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the examination, a very eerie sound wailed through the air. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It then shuts off, along with an eerie sound. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 怪异的 Japanese: 不気味な |
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