| 单词 | motley |
| 释义 | mot·ley I. 1. < Swiss guardsmen in the strange motley garb … contrived for them — Nathaniel Hawthorne > < clad in a motley coat with red-and-yellow scarf — J.P.O'Donnell > 2. obsolete < a leather bag, a motley jacket — Richard Brathwaite > 3. a. < how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being — W.S.Maugham > < these motley elements of skepticism and reform — Felix Frankfurter > b. < lived in varied cities and very motley societies — G.K.Chesterton > < the motley speakers of late provincial Latin — Yakov Malkiel > < a motley crowd > < a motley crew > < a motley scene > Synonyms: see variegated II. 1. 2. a. < motley's the only wear — Shakespeare > b. < no circus clown … when he has put aside the makeup and the motley — Emmett Kelly > < a reign where even tragedy was expected to wear motley — Frances Winwar > 3. a. < all the motleys with their caps and bells — W.H.Dixon > b. < made myself a motley to the view — Shakespeare > < making herself a motley to the view with all fresh acquaintances — Angela Thirkell > 4. < a motley of borrowed or invented raiment — Ellen Glasgow > < a motley of hand-me-downs, baggy generalities, and shabby prejudices — H.J.Muller > < a motley of nations … thrown together — A.L.Kroeber > III. |
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