| 单词 | strange |
| 释义 | strange I. 1. a. < the immigrant press came … under surveillance … because of the strange tongues in which most were published — Oscar Handlin > b. < something strange had been inhaled — X-rays & You > c. < lacked sympathy for strange customs — Agnes Repplier > < there shall be no strange gods among you — Ps 81:9 (Revised Standard Version) > 2. a. < the name … though it was strange to me, was well known to some there — R.L.Stevenson > < sent to the front … to join a strange outfit under enemy fire — Gordon Harrison > b. (1) < a strange world indeed, replete with … even more weird inhabitants — F.G.Slaughter > < resorts to strange shapes, odd forms without beauty — E.M.Bridge > < a strange exaltation that was indefinable — Liam O'Flaherty > (2) < it's strange, the queer sort of people who win the lotteries — Ruth Park > < a strange petulance that runs through the writings of the social engineers — W.H.Whyte > 3. < why did you break off our confidences and become quite strange to me — G.B.Shaw > 4. < I know thee well; but in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange — Shakespeare > Synonyms: < the headlands, snow-crowned, take on an icy glaze that sharpens their strange silhouettes — American Guide Series: Maine > < a strange story of a mountain in Numidia which was inhabited by a commonwealth of cats — Agnes Repplier > < a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion — Thomas Hardy > singular may suggest individual strangeness of or as if of something unusual or notably different from others of its group; it may be a close synonym of strange < by the singular magic of his personality — Osbert Sitwell > < the taxi driver had lugged the parcel into the terminal for the woman, and then — proving himself a singular example of his species — had broken a ten-dollar bill for her when it developed that the clerk had insufficient change — E.J.Kahn > < singular that a woman of that age should flush so readily — W.S.Maugham > unique may describe that which is singular (or individual) and unparalleled < a privilege unique not only in the British Army but I believe in any army there has ever been — J.S.Bradford > < the unique task of setting up an observation post directly at the South Pole — Walter Sullivan > < a glass conservatory full of tropical blossoms of quite unique and almost monstrous beauty — G.K.Chesterton > peculiar describes anything markedly different, unusual, or puzzling; it is sometimes a close synonym of the terms following < she had put herself in a peculiar light, namely, that of agreeing to marry when she was already supposedly married — Theodore Dreiser > < the peculiar individuals are those whose behavior is odd and somewhat unpredictable — Carney Landis & Mary Bolles > eccentric implies a noticeably unusual deviation from the usual, normal, or established < what sort of burglars are they who steal silver, and then throw it into the nearest pond — it was certainly rather eccentric behavior — A. Conan Doyle > < this architectural curiosity was erected in 1815 by an eccentric Irishman — American Guide Series: Virginia > erratic may suggest a wandering or deviating, sometimes capricious, from the accustomed or expected so that predictability is impossible < geniuses are such erratic people — G.B.Shaw > < his moods were erratic, and nobody could be certain how he would behave at any particular moment — Thomas Hardy > odd may apply to a departure from normal tinged with the fantastic, whimsical, or paradoxical < the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown — Virginia Woolf > < it was an odd argument that developed. Allnutt was perfectly prepared by now to throw away the life that had seemed so precious to him — C.S.Forester > < it is odd that, when we whip her, Madam should love us the more — George Meredith > queer may describe the eccentric or odd slightly tinged with the questionable, dubious, reprehensible, or threatening < something queer floating by the bank. It was the body of an old woman, gutted, but not gutted enough to sink — Marjory S. Douglas > < a queer, wild, half-starved, half-crazy loveliness — Katharine N. Burt > quaint may suggest a pleasing or attractive oddness usually due to some old-fashioned suggestion < one of those quaint figures, in the stately ruff, the cloak, tunic, and trunk hose of three centuries ago — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < quaint little tank engines, with tall chimneys, cowcatchers and highly polished steam domes — O.S.Nock > outlandish applies to what is odd as bizarre, foreign, barbaric, or exotic < wholly independent, and withal outlandish, they have left me a memory of pigtails and gongs and fluttering red paper — John Reed > curious, often interchangeable with others in this group, may apply to what merits or invites close scrutiny or examination through its strange or singular nature < curious and suspicious circumstances had of late been discovered — Rose Macaulay > < the curious expression “pure serene” — Amy Lowell > < the writ of habeas corpus has had a most curious history — Edward Jenks > II. III. < strange quarks > |
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