Quaint
[kweɪnt] or [kwent]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) strange in an interesting or pleasing way; 'quaint dialect words'; 'quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities' .
(adj.) 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' .
贝拉編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
(a.) Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
(a.) Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
校對:卢瑟
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Odd, strange, singular, whimsical, unusual, uncommon, extraordinary, unique, curious, droll, fantastic, fanciful, far-fetched, out of the way.
阿纳托尔校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Curious, recondite, abstruse, elegant, nice, affected, whimsical, odd, antique,archaic, fanciful, singular, old-fashioned
ANT:Commonplace, ordinary, usual, coarse, common, modern, modish, fashionable,dowdy
吉尔达整理
解釋/意思:
adj. unusual: odd: whimsical: (obs.) prim affectedly nice: fine: (Shak.) clever.—adv. Quaint′ly.—n. Quaint′ness.
黛尔編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Walk in, Mr. Franklin, he said, opening the door behind him, with his quaint old-fashioned bow. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Eustacia, though living within two miles of the place, had never seen the interior of this quaint old habitation. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- It's a quaint place, and they are quaint company, and it's quite a new sensation to mix with them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Never again after this quaint failure did Mecca make an effective rally against Muhammad, and one by one its leading men came over to his side. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In England Sir Thomas More produced a quaint imitation of Plato's _Republic_ in his _Utopia_, setting out a sort of autocratic communism. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A quainter corner than the corner where the Doctor lived, was not to be found in London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
編輯:威拉