quaint是什么意思

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      quaint 是什么意思

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      中文翻译与英英解释

      adj.
      1.离奇有趣的，古雅的；优雅的；奇妙的。
      2.(工艺制作等)灵巧的。
      短语和例子
      a quaint old house 一座古雅的老房子。
      adv.
      -ly ,-ness n.

      strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

      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"

      attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
      同义词：old-time, olde worlde,

      1.
      Did you ever hear anything so quaint ?
      这样荒廖的话，你以前听过没有？

      2.
      To philip the room seemed quaint and charming .
      菲利浦觉得这房间既典雅又迷人。

      3.
      The piano has a quaint old-world tone about it .
      这架钢琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。

      4.
      Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings .
      栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物。

      5.
      I liked nina, too; she was so quaint and unexpected .
      我也很喜欢尼娜；她是那样离奇有趣，不可捉摸。

      6.
      Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .
      这儿有一座不很整齐的，砌着三角墙的古色古香的老教堂。

      7.
      Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .
      这儿有一座不很整齐的，砌着三角墙的，古色古香的老教堂。

      8.
      Those whom nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque .
      本来只可以说有一点奇异的东西，现在都变得光怪陆离。

      9.
      The quaint persian city has been engulfed by a roaring metropolis .
      那富有奇趣的波斯城市已经被一座喧嚣的大都会所吞没。

      10.
      He loved mrs. leives, with her unworldliness and her quaint cynicism .
      他爱莱弗斯太太，她超脱世俗，离奇古雅，愤世嫉俗。