| 单词 | mysterious |
| 释义 | mysterious (once / 141 pages) adj Something that is mysterious has a secret-like quality that makes it hard to understand or define, like your mysterious answers that made your friends curious about what you were really up to. A dark shadow skims across the surface of lake...a strange disease makes a city's inhabitants violently ill...a large, hairy creature is spotted wandering in the woods. These situations are all mysterious because we don't know their causes. You can see the word mystery in mysterious. A mystery is a hidden or secret thing, so something that is mysterious takes effort to understand, unless it is beyond our comprehension. WORD FAMILYmysterious: mysteriouser, mysteriousest, mysteriously+/mystery: mysteries, mysterious USAGE EXAMPLESAt least he’s a similar physical type to Benedict: tall, good-looking and mysterious. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Treasurer Saint Just called the reported request “mysterious.” Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) Many studies linked the chemicals to a mysterious collapse of bee colonies that was in the news. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1adj having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding mysterious symbols Syn mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, secret esoteric confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle 2adj of an obscure nature "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson Syn cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mystifying incomprehensible, inexplicable incapable of being explained or accounted for |
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