Freak
[friːk]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To variegate; to checker; to streak.
(n.) A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
阿蒂整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Whim, whimsey, caprice, fancy, humor, crotchet, maggot, vagary, quirk, WRINKLE.[2]. Gambol, antic, caper.
整理:米歇尔
解釋/意思:
n. a sudden caprice or fancy: sport: an abnormal production of nature a monstrosity.—ns. Freak′iness Freak′ishness.—adjs. Freak′ish Freak′ful apt to change the mind suddenly: capricious.—adv. Freak′ishly.
v.t. to spot or streak: to variegate.—n. a streak of colour.
迪尔德丽手打
例句/造句/用法:
- He knew with the first breath he drew that the snow had been only a freak storm in the mountains and it would be gone by noon. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It is no queer freak. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- They began to get anxious, and Laurie went off to find her, for no one knew what freak Jo might take into her head. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He's got the freak of being a popular man now, after dangling about like a stray tortoise. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I daresay it is a mad freak, sir, but not so very insane if you look upon it from my point of view. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Is this not rather a mad freak? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- One of poor Casaubon's freaks! 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Of these latter testamentary freaks we will say no more here. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Being at the end of my invention, I said Mr. Franklin's arrival by the early train was entirely attributable to one of Mr. Franklin's freaks. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Or will they forgive the freaks of a half crazed imagination? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Constant confinement below ground had wrought odd freaks upon their skins. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Louis, strange to say, likes her all the better for these freaks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
埃尔罗伊校對