单词 | uncanny |
释义 | uncannyun‧can‧ny /ʌnˈkæni/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
THESAURUSvery strange► weird Collocations very strange or very different from what you are used to: · I had a weird dream last night.· It’s a weird and wonderful place. ► bizarre extremely strange and different from what is usually considered normal: · It was a bizarre situation.· Mark’s behaviour was really bizarre. ► surreal extremely strange and unconnected with real life or normal experiences, like something out of a dream: · His paintings are full of surreal images.· There is something surreal about the climate change talks in Bali.· The plant’s flowers were so big that they seemed almost surreal ► uncanny very strange – used especially about someone having an unusual ability to do something, or looking surprisingly similar to someone: · She had an uncanny knack (=ability) of putting her finger right on a problem.· Alice had an uncanny resemblance to Josie.· his uncanny ability to pick racing winners COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► uncanny ability very strange and difficult to explain: an uncanny coincidence► see thesaurus at strange—uncannily adverb (=an unusual ability that is difficult to explain)· He has an uncanny ability for spotting investment opportunities. ► an uncanny knack (=an ability that seems surprising or strange)· She has an uncanny knack for knowing what you're really thinking. ► an uncanny resemblance (=noticeable and difficult to explain)· I'd always thought that Jo and Freddie had an uncanny resemblance. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► ability· Bonefish's real name was Hector, but he had earned his nickname because of his uncanny ability to find the elusive fish.· And he has this uncanny ability to synthesize concepts from a few isolated observations.· Anyone who worked with him recognised his uncanny ability to find something oddly heroic in all the manifestations of human weakness.· Boilly had the uncanny ability to record the individual and the crowd simultaneously.· Jack knew quite enough about her uncanny ability to choose the wrong men.· A number of athletes have gained reputations for this uncanny ability. ► accuracy· It was starting to be unnerving, this ability of his to judge her with such uncanny accuracy!· Again and again he was saved only by the uncanny accuracy of his shooting.· He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship. ► knack· But like most of his colleagues in Hampden Babylon he had an uncanny knack of pushing the self-destruct button.· He had a deep knowledge of the habits of all the local wildlife and an uncanny knack of befriending them.· Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.· As some one said ... him and Strach had an uncanny knack of supporting each other when needed. ► resemblance· He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy.· The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.· One of the inn's habitués, a commercial traveller named Thomas Paufer, bore an uncanny resemblance to Johnson.· Stack saw an uncanny resemblance to his fictional Josh.· In the multi-tracked recording Mr Jarvis plays 99 roles, many of which bear an uncanny resemblance to well-known actors.· The policies of central banks in the post-cold war years bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the 1920s.· It was a face in fact which bore an uncanny resemblance to a young Jack Palance.· There is an uncanny resemblance between this reasoning and that which had earlier led John Dalton to an atomic theory of chemistry. |
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