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adj.
(形容詞)
- 古色古香的 charmingly old-fashioned
- 少見的，古怪的 unusual;odd;strange
Adjective:
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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"
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用作形容詞 (adj.)
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Old photographs seem quaint to us today.
舊照片兒當前就我門來我覺得或許奇特好玩。
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The meadow and brook are quaint.
草原和小溪很妙趣橫生。
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Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage.
老媽媽住在兩層樓古香古色的山間別野里。
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Our neighbor is a quaint old lady.
公司的和鄰居是位奇怪的老少奶奶。
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They still keep some quaint old customs.
孩子 從未刪去著部分少見奇特的舊習俗。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
看做定語
～+ n.
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Grandma lives in a quaint cottage.
老奶奶住在一幢古樸典雅的別墅房里。
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There were many small lanes in the quaint village.
在古香古色的小村子里有無數小巷。
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They still keep some quaint old customs.
孩子 還開展著其他新奇古怪手機的舊風俗習慣。
用在表語
S+be+～+ prep. -phrase
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Old photographs seem quaint to us today.
舊照片現代看起來也許挺詭異。
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The quaint back streets of Kingston.
出自于： J. K. Jerome
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Personalities as..quaint and idiosyncratic as characters in a novel by Dickens.
來自： D. Cecil
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However quaint this may sound today, it is a notion which has persisted well into our century.
產自：Classical Quarterly
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- queer，odd，funny，crazy，curious，peculiar，strange，eccentric，quaint，singular
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- 這些形容詞均含有“奇怪的，奇異的，新奇的”之意。
- queer指一種無法解釋的怪誕，強調事物的奇特和不可思議。
- odd通常指不規律、偶爾出現的人或事物，往往令人困惑或奇怪。
- funny較通俗用詞，指奇怪得滑稽可笑或反常。
- crazy多指與眾不同的行為、外表或人與物本身，含荒唐可笑或神經不正常的意味。
- curious通常指非常特別或能引起注意、研究或探索的奇特。
- peculiar側重令人奇怪的或獨一無二的特性，也指性格特征方面顯著的與眾不同之處。
- strange普通常用詞，含義廣泛，指陌生新奇、奇怪、奇怪或不自然的人或物。
- eccentric指偏離常規的怪異或怪癖。
- quaint指古色古香，會人感到既奇怪又有趣。
- singular通常指異常或奇特，暗含不同于一般。
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左右相關內容獨門設計，受重要名譽權愛護，侵犯知識產權必究
海詞詞典下載，二十七年項目
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