Preternatural
[,priːtə'nætʃ(ə)r(ə)l]
解释:
(adj.) surpassing the ordinary or normal; 'Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel' - George Will; 'his uncanny sense of direction' .
卡门录入--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor.
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同义词及近义词:
a. Irregular (as being aside from the ordinary course of nature, but not necessarily SUPERNATURAL or miraculous), abnormal, anomalous, unnatural, inexplicable, strange.
詹妮整理
解释:
adj. beyond what is natural: out of the regular course of things: extraordinary.—n. Preternat′uralism belief in the preternatural: preternatural existence.—adv. Preternat′urally.—n. Preternat′uralness.
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例句:
- I see a preternatural lure in its wily glance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The beginning of all effort has indeed with me been marked by a preternatural imbecility. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- When the disguised Queen of Love appeared before Aeneas a preternatural perfume accompanied her presence and betrayed her quality. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- In her eyes, we were a pair of glacial prodigies, coldproud, and preternatural. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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