单词 | weird |
释义 | weird I. 1. a. b. usually capitalized 2. a. b. c. 3. II. 1. Scotland 2. Scotland III. 1. archaic 2. a. < Spanish horses, which appeared as weird centaurs to the amazed Indians — R.W.Murray > < weird stories of the supernatural, rousing terror and pity — Frank Monaghan > b. < a weird desert of congealed lava — Tom Marvel > < around the sun appears the weird, pearly corona seen on earth only during total eclipses — Waldemar Kaempffert > < the weird, ringing voices of veeries — W.P.Smith > 3. < some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow — Bram Stoker > < in this section grow many weird varieties of cactus — American Guide Series: Texas > < weird prophets popped up everywhere — G.W.Johnson > < some of his statements on local and state politics are a bit weird — G.E.Mowry > Synonyms: < something a trifle weird about leaving the little man alone among those dead servants — G.K.Chesterton > < a touch of the weird or ghostly — P.E.More > < a procession of weird characters: sorcerers, syndics, half-wits, adolescent girls in pregnancy, hermaphrodites — Richard Plant > < preaching a weird interpretation of the Scriptures — American Guide Series: Ind. > eerie suggests an uneasy, often fearful premonition that malign powers or influences are at work < some eerie moments among the corpses — Times Literary Supplement > < the flutes keep up an eerie wail — Horace Sutton > < the poem has an eerie quality, like that of dream or of neurosis — Yvor Winters > < the spruce trees and rocks loomed out of the fog in eerie, blurred shapes — Jean Potter > uncanny suggests in one sense uncomfortable strangeness or mysteriousness; in another more common sense, merely beyond ordinary powers to comprehend or as though supernatural < some uncanny apparition in a graveyard > < the machines operate with uncanny precision at high speeds — Envelope > < the natives display uncanny proficiency in detecting the whereabouts of fish — Bill Beatty > |
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