Preternatural
[,priːtə'nætʃ(ə)r(ə)l]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) surpassing the ordinary or normal; 'Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel' - George Will; 'his uncanny sense of direction' .
卡门錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Irregular (as being aside from the ordinary course of nature, but not necessarily SUPERNATURAL or miraculous), abnormal, anomalous, unnatural, inexplicable, strange.
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解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- I see a preternatural lure in its wily glance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The beginning of all effort has indeed with me been marked by a preternatural imbecility. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- When the disguised Queen of Love appeared before Aeneas a preternatural perfume accompanied her presence and betrayed her quality. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became preternatural; for all was in extremity. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In her eyes, we were a pair of glacial prodigies, coldproud, and preternatural. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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