单词 | peculiar |
释义 | peculiar (pɪkjuːliəʳ ) 1. adjective B2 If you describe someone or something as peculiar, you think that they are strange or unusual, sometimes in an unpleasant way. Mr Kennet has a rather peculiar sense of humour. Rachel thought it tasted peculiar. Synonyms: odd, strange, unusual, bizarre peculiarly adverb His face had become peculiarly expressionless. 2. adjective If something is peculiar to a particular thing, person, or situation, it belongs or relates only to that thing, person, or situation. The problem is by no means peculiar to America. [+ to] peculiarly adverb Cricket is so peculiarly English. 3. graded adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you say that you feel peculiar, you mean that you feel slightly ill or unsteady. All this has made me feel quite peculiar. Synonyms: ill, poorly [informal], sick, crook [Australian, New Zealand, informal] Collocations: a bit peculiar But back in the old days, let's face it, adults were a bit peculiar. Times, Sunday Times He was a great hurdler, although a bit peculiar. The Sun When people try, they can sound a bit peculiar. Times, Sunday Times At worst, though, she's probably just a bit peculiar. Times, Sunday Times By becoming descriptive, music seems to give up its peculiar characteristic that, hitched to the world's pure dynamism, consists of describing nothing in particular. The Times Literary Supplement This has the peculiar characteristic of permanence and perpetuation-to stay forever. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The peculiar characteristic of this building was the projecting pediments over the roof line. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The great thinker, considered one of the founders of modern philosophy, had many peculiar characteristics. Times, Sunday Times Some of his other peculiar characteristics include his insistence on getting ten hours of sleep every night and his unreadable handwriting. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A peculiar feature was often a tontine format that offered windfall profits to surviving nominees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even when we ignore possible world semantics and stick to axiomatic systems, this peculiar feature holds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One peculiar feature of the engine was the extreme forward placement of the dome on the first ring of the boiler. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The peculiar feature of this style was the ornamental gable facade at the nave end, surmounted by a cross. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That peculiar feature gives to the vertebra a rarely used third name: vertebra dentata. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From the off, he was a peculiar mix of reality and dreams, fact and fiction, truth and lies. Times, Sunday Times His peculiar mix of pragmatism and rebellion, the red-flecked hair and his father's 'love' and 'hate' tattoos made him stand out from the crowd. Times, Sunday Times As the sea retreated, the leading theory goes, it exposed a peculiar mix of sediments forming a sandstone laced with reactive minerals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Put courage and bravery, redemption and a peculiar mix of agony and ecstasy on the screen in a brilliant dramatic manner. Times, Sunday Times When and if a teratoma ran out of these embryonal cells, it would just sit there, sporting its peculiar mix of hair and teeth, cartilage, and tiny tubules. The Scientist Translations: Chinese: 奇特的 Japanese: 変な |
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