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quaint是什么意思

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quaint 是什么意思

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中文翻译与英英解释

adj.
1.离奇有趣的,古雅的;优雅的;奇妙的。
2.(工艺制作等)灵巧的。
短语和例子
a quaint old house 一座古雅的老房子。
adv.
-ly ,-ness n.
strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

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"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
同义词:old-time, olde worlde,

例句与用法

1.Did you ever hear anything so quaint ?
这样荒廖的话,你以前听过没有?

2.To philip the room seemed quaint and charming .
菲利浦觉得这房间既典雅又迷人。

3.The piano has a quaint old-world tone about it .
这架钢琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。

4.Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings .
栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物。

5.I liked nina, too; she was so quaint and unexpected .
我也很喜欢尼娜;她是那样离奇有趣,不可捉摸。

6.Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .
这儿有一座不很整齐的,砌着三角墙的古色古香的老教堂。

7.Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .
这儿有一座不很整齐的,砌着三角墙的,古色古香的老教堂。

8.Those whom nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque .
本来只可以说有一点奇异的东西,现在都变得光怪陆离。

9.The quaint persian city has been engulfed by a roaring metropolis .
那富有奇趣的波斯城市已经被一座喧嚣的大都会所吞没。

10.He loved mrs. leives, with her unworldliness and her quaint cynicism .
他爱莱弗斯太太,她超脱世俗,离奇古雅,愤世嫉俗。

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