| 单词 | strange |
| 释义 | strange (once / 33 pages) adj Anything that is unusual or out of the ordinary can be described as strange, like the strange sight of an ice cream truck pulling up in front of your school and your principal skipping over to it. The adjective strange comes from Latin word extraneus, meaning “foreign” or “external.” If someone approaches you speaking with a strange accent, it means you can't identify where the person is from, not that he or she is odd or weird — the newer meaning of strange. But remember, it once was a strange sight to see a person talking on a cell phone; when the unknown becomes known, it is no longer strange. WORD FAMILYstrange: strangely, strangeness, strangest+/strangeness: strangenesses USAGE EXAMPLESThis was unprecedented, and it held a strange appeal. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) The president-elect did not respond to a question from the Guardian about whether Ferguson would be performing Strange Fruit at the inauguration. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Singer Rebecca Ferguson says she will accept Donald Trump’s invitation to sing at his inauguration under one condition: she wants to sing “Strange Fruit.” Time(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird a strange exaltation that was indefinable a strange fantastical mind what a strange sense of humor she has Syn|Ant unusual antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque ludicrously odd crazybizarre or fantastic curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singularbeyond or deviating from the usual or expected eerie, eeryinspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening exoticstrikingly strange or unusual freakystrange and somewhat frightening gothiccharacterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque oddishsomewhat strange othervery unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected quaintstrange in an interesting or pleasing way quaintvery strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance weirdstrikingly odd or unusual familiar within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange common, usualcommonly encountered common or gardenthe usual or familiar type everydaycommonplace and ordinary 2adj not known before used many strange words saw many strange faces in the crowd Syn unknown unfamiliar not known or well known 3adj relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world Syn|Ant foreign adventive not native and not fully established; locally or temporarily naturalized alien, exoticbeing or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world nonnativeof plants or animals originating in a part of the world other than where they are growing established, naturalizedintroduced from another region and persisting without cultivation foreign-born, nonnativeof persons born in another area or country than that lived in importedused of especially merchandise brought from a foreign source tramontanebeing or coming from another country unnaturalised, unnaturalizednot having acquired citizenship native characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenousoriginating where it is found domesticproduced in a particular country homegrowngrown or originating in a particular place native-bornbelonging to a place by birth |
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