Unnatural
[ʌn'nætʃ(ə)r(ə)l] or [ʌn'nætʃrəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; 'an unnatural death'; 'the child's unnatural interest in death' .
校對:罗赞--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes.
达雷尔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Unusual, uncommon, anomalous, irregular, abnormal, aberrant, monstrous, preternatural, prodigious.[2]. Forced, strained, stilted, affected, constrained, artificial.
巴纳德編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. not natural or according to nature: without natural affection.—v.t. Unnat′uralise.—adj. Unnat′uralised not naturalised.—ns. Unnat′uralism Unnatural′ity.—adv. Unnat′urally.—n. Unnat′uralness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Are we to be exposed to this unnatural conduct every moment of our lives? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I don't know what you may call this, but I call it unnatural conduct. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It seemed to be of an unnatural color, and to have a strange rigidity about the features. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She could feel his body gradually relaxing a little, losing its terrifying, unnatural rigidity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I, hate it altogether, and I hate everybody except you,' said the unnatural young Thomas Gradgrind in the hair-cutting chamber at twilight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Why such unnatural abstinence? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She must be the most unnatural mamma in existence, coolly to let her daughter come out in this weather. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The one thing is not more unnatural than the other. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I was some little way off, so that I could not make out the features, but there was something unnatural and inhuman about the face. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which he anoints his hair gives him unnatural strength, and that he is a match for a man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- His presence was unnatural and ghostly to them. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was painful to my heart to acknowledge a sister so unnatural, and it caused another relapse. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the elevated came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- What has Mr. Frank Churchill done, to make you suppose him such an unnatural creature? 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- With him it was most unnatural. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You are unnatural, Clym, and I did not expect it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They seem to have felt that the lives and habits of these devotees were queer and unnatural. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I could teach; I could give lessonsbut to be either a private governess or a companion was unnatural to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- And she dreaded contact, it was almost unnatural to her at these times. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The infuriated beast, pulled up and backwards until he stood upon his hind legs, struggled impotently in this unnatural position. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It was a wild, hoarse scream, so strange and unnatural that it might have come either from a man or a woman. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The next, 'The theory of the book is bad, full of morbid fancies, spiritualistic ideas, and unnatural characters. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- A really good talk, she went on, smiling with what seemed to Archer an unnatural vividness. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- The life she leads is morbid, unnatural. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- The spirit of the pioneer does not survive forever: it is kept alive to-day, I believe, by certain unnatural irritants which may be summed up as absentee ownership. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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