quaint的英文翻譯是什麼意思,詞典釋義與在線翻譯:
雙解釋義
- 古色古香的 charmingly old-fashioned
- 少見的,古怪的 unusual;odd;strange
英英釋義
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strange in an interesting or pleasing way;
"quaint dialect words"
"quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
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very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance;
"the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"
"came forth a quaint and fearful sight"
"a quaint sense of humor"
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attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"
"a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
quaint的用法和樣例:
例句
- Old photographs seem quaint to us today.
舊照片現在就我們來看來似乎古怪有趣。 - The meadow and brook are quaint.
草地和小河很有趣。 - Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage.
奶奶住在一棟古色古香的鄉間別墅里。 - Our neighbor is a quaint old lady.
我們的鄰居是位古怪的老太太。 - They still keep some quaint old customs.
他們仍然保留著一些稀奇古怪的舊風俗。
辭彙搭配
- quaint dresses 古怪的服裝
- quaint village customs 稀奇古怪的農村習俗
經典引文
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The quaint back streets of Kingston.
出自: J. K. Jerome -
Personalities as..quaint and idiosyncratic as characters in a novel by Dickens.
出自: D. Cecil -
However quaint this may sound today, it is a notion which has persisted well into our century.
出自:Classical Quarterly
quaint的相關資料:
近反義詞
- Old-Fashioned 老式的
- curious 好奇的
- odd 奇數的
- singular 單數的
- strange 奇怪的
- colorful 華美的
- scenic 風景好的
- fanciful 想像的
- peculiar 奇怪的
- old-world 以前的
- picturesque 如畫的
- antiquated 陳舊的
- charming 迷人的
- pretty 相當地
- attractive 有吸引力的
- appealing 引起興趣的
- bizarre 奇異的
- weird 離奇的
- extraordinary 非凡的
- unusual 異常的
- olde worlde 古老的
- funny 可笑的
- queer 古怪的
- crazy 瘋狂的
- eccentric 古怪的
- old-time 古時的
派生詞
- quaintly adv. 古怪地