quaint 是什么意思
adj. 古雅的；奇怪的；离奇有趣的；做得很精巧的
quaint 记忆方法
1. It comes from cognitus 'known'. The word's meaning evolved via the notion of someone who 'knows' about something ("get or come to know well"), and hence is an expert at it or is skilful in doing it;
2. and came to mean 'skilled, expert, clever, finely or skilfully made'; this led later to the notion of being skilfully made or elegant, which eventually degenerated into 'agreeably curious, pleasantly curious'.
3. => elaborate, skillfully made; strange and clever; old-fashioned but charming.
4. q -> g, => quai => guai => 怪的拼音 => 古怪啊，古怪的。
quaint 中文词源
quaint 古色古香的
来自古法语cointe,优雅的，精致的，来自拉丁语cognitus,知道，知晓，词源同know,cognizance.引申词义古色古香的，有古味的。
英语词源
quaintquaint: [13] Quaint was once a more wholehearted term of approval than it is now. In Middle English it meant ‘clever’ or ‘finely or skilfully made’. Its current sense ‘pleasantly curious’ did not emerge until the 18th ce
quaint 权威例句
- 1. Boppard is a small, quaint town with narrow streets.
- 博帕德是一个有着许多深巷窄道、古香古色的小镇。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. a quaint seaside village
- 古朴典雅的海滨村庄
来自《权威词典》
- 3. There were many small lanes in the quaint village.
- 在这古香古色的村庄里,有很多小巷.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. 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.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. They still keep some quaint old customs.
- 他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗.
来自《简明英汉词典》
quaint 造句
- 1. On the face of it, life was a mixture of the quaint and the archaic.
- 从表面上看来，生活是离奇有趣的事物和古老事物的混合体。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 2. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 3. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 4. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 5. It might have been the trees he was addressing on the quaint customs of crystals.
- 他似乎是对树木作关于晶体的奇妙习性的发言。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 6. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 7. To Philip the room seemed quaint and charming.
- 菲利浦觉得这房间既典雅又迷人。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 8. Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings.
- 栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 9. His ideas were quaint and fantastic. She brought him judiciously to earth.
- 他的看法荒廖古怪，她颇有见识地劝他面对现实。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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