quaint

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishquaintquaint /kweɪnt/ adjective NICEunusual and attractive, especially in an old-fashioned way a quaint little village in YorkshireExamples from the Corpusquaint• Well, the times are hardly simple, the place certainly not quaint.• With media turning into little more than a gaggle of special effects, journalistic ethics may seem a bit quaint.• Beside this, Britain's outbreaks of sleaze seem almost quaint.• It had refused to remain either sleepy or teeming, chaotic or quaint.• the town's quaint charm• quaint country cottages• Stigler scoffed at the quaint idea of university as a place where a professor and a small group of students can sit in a study and discuss great thoughts.• We stayed in a quaint little fishing village in Cornwall.• The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated.• Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.• Attractions include scenic journeys by boat and an eight-mile steam railway as well as quaint shops and restaurants.Origin quaint (1100-1200) Old French cointe “clever”, from Latin cognitus “known”

单词	quaint
释义	quaint From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishquaintquaint /kweɪnt/ ●○○ adjective NICEunusual and attractive, especially in an old-fashioned way a quaint little village in YorkshireExamples from the Corpusquaint• Well, the times are hardly simple, the place certainly not quaint.• With media turning into little more than a gaggle of special effects, journalistic ethics may seem a bit quaint.• Beside this, Britain's outbreaks of sleaze seem almost quaint.• It had refused to remain either sleepy or teeming, chaotic or quaint.• the town's quaint charm• quaint country cottages• Stigler scoffed at the quaint idea of university as a place where a professor and a small group of students can sit in a study and discuss great thoughts.• We stayed in a quaint little fishing village in Cornwall.• The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated.• Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.• Attractions include scenic journeys by boat and an eight-mile steam railway as well as quaint shops and restaurants.Origin quaint (1100-1200) Old French cointe “clever”, from Latin cognitus “known”
随便看	it sounds as if though it sounds as if though it sounds as if/as though it sounds like it sounds like it stands to reason it stands to reason (that) it stands to reason that it strikes it strikes as odd etc that it strikes as strange etc that it strikes somebody (that) it strikes somebody as strange/odd etc that it strikes that it surprises how it surprises somebody that/how/what it surprises somebody to see/find/know etc it surprises that it surprises to find etc it surprises to know etc it surprises to see etc it surprises what it takes all sorts it takes all sorts (to make a world) it takes all sorts to make a world