Exotic
[ɪg'zɒtɪk;eg-] or [ɪɡ'zɑtɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) strikingly strange or unusual; 'an exotic hair style'; 'protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants'; 'the exotic landscape of a dead planet' .
校對:内尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.
(n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
手打:奥斯伯特
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Foreign, extraneous, not indigenous, not native.
丹尼校對
同義詞及反義詞:
[See FOREIGN]
伊莎贝拉錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. introduced from a foreign country—the opposite of indigenous.—n. anything of foreign origin: something not native to a country as a plant a word a custom.—ns. Exot′icism Ex′otism.
編輯:西尔维亚
例句/造句/用法:
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The thick, warm air of the conservatory and the rich, choking fragrance of exotic plants took us by the throat. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But my eye, I'd caught a Sultan that time--' Gudrun's eyes were flashing, her cheek was hot, she looked strange, exotic, satiric. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- This room contained, in a profusion almost incredible, every rare exotic root and flower. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
手打:温迪