| 单词 | new |
| 释义 | new I. 1. < a new coat > < a new regime > < new fashions > 2. a. < a new crop for this region > broadly < new doctrines > < new concepts > < liked to visit new places > b. < turn a new leaf > < the new teacher > < a new product > c. of land < broke 10 acres of new ground that winter > d. < new potatoes > < new peas are sometimes ready by July 4 > 3. < a new member > < new from school > < new to the plow > 4. a. < a new year > < a new start > < a new edition > b. < rest had made him a new man > 5. < the new reservoir > < the new theology > 6. a. < a new family > < the new rich > b. < introducing new blood into an ancient but outworn line > < try a new strain of hybrid corn > 7. usually capitalized, of a language Synonyms: < a new invention > < a new type of adding machine > < a new movie star > < a new experience > < a new pan > < a new baby > < a new president > novel applies to something that is not only new but also markedly out of the ordinary in its type of newness often to the point of seeming strange or startling < built a novel fort of parallel log walls filled with earth — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < vacationists who like novel activities can sail to a remote part of the islands … for buried treasure — L.A.Werden > < the book was novel to the point of seeming bizarre — W.L.Sperry > < in a novel and highly photogenic setting — Rome's new, deluxe depot — Arthur Knight > < the experiment of appointing as a teacher of law one who had never practiced the profession was novel — Samuel Williston b. 1861 > new-fashioned suggests a newness of form, style, or character that challenges curiosity or that has been only recently popularly accepted < the type of old-fashioned scholarship … the type of new-fashioned criticism — S.E.Hyman > < the new-fashioned girl in light, comfortable clothes > newfangled is disparaging in suggesting unnecessary or objectionable and usually ingenious novelty < its villages have avoided any incongruous newfangled type of building — S.P.B.Mais > < quite a modern hostelry for its time. It had such newfangled doodads as mechanical dishwashers and potato peelers — Green Peyton > < the empress Tzu Hsi, who again seized the reins of government and revoked all the newfangled regulations — Olga Lang > modern and the now rare or literary neoteric imply a belonging to the present time in a broad sense or to the present era, often suggesting up-to-dateness and sometimes novelty < Pineville is even more modern in appearance, most of its residences having been rebuilt after a destructive cyclone in 1923 — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < telephone line, house, and highway, although giving the modern touch, are far from being truly up-to-date — G.R.Stewart > < pianoforte compositions. In these, Bach is more modern than Haydn, Mozart or even Beethoven — Encyc. Americana > < modern English dates from the 16th century > < the modern era in geology covers many thousands of years > < a girl anxious to be considered modern, not oldfashioned > < neoteric brass playing by a group of young men who are obviously fond of J. S. Bach — Wilder Hobson > modernistic, sometimes interchangeable with modern, usually adds to modern a contemptuous suggestion of the ephemerally novel < his adoption of many modernistic harmonic procedures makes his works tantalizing by the very incongruity of their essence and their idiom — Nicolas Slonimsky > < the jury … felt called upon to point out that Conway's work was “in no way modernistic, though distinctly modern” — Time > < when I refer to modern music, I do not mean necessarily “modernistic” music, much of which is a pale afterglow of the great and original modernism of yesteryear — Virgil Thomson > original applies to what is or produces something new, novel, and the first of its kind < the Aztec character was perfectly original and unique — W.H.Prescott > < the would-be original veers perilously towards the extravagant and the eccentric — J.L.Lowes > < an interesting and original mind that despised imitation > fresh in this connection applies to what is new and still retaining a first liveliness, energy, virginal quality, and so on < a fresh and vital painting > < a lively and fresh active mind > < a fresh point of view upon an old problem > II. 1. < the new ever supplants the old > especially < in the new of the moon > 2. < wear the new off these shoes > III. < grass new washed by rain > — often used in combination < new-mown > |
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