quaintness

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是什么意思
  • n.

    离奇有趣,古怪的事物;

  • 英英释义

    quaintness[ kweintnis ]

    • n.
      • the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned

        "she liked the old cottage"; "its quaintness was appealing"

      • strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned

        "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"

    学习怎么用

    双语例句

    用作名词(n.)
    1. But, in spite of their quaintness, a little study revealed that the old reading books have many redeeming features.
      可是,只要稍加研究就不难发现,老书尽管古怪,却包含着不少优点。

    权威例句

    Quaintness
    Quaintness
    The unbearable quaintness of neurology
    “QUAINTNESS” IN PAULINE SMITH: OBSERVATIONS ON HER STYLE AND DIALOGUE
    The quaintness of the U.S. intelligence community: Its origin, theory, and problems
    The color of quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, black song, and American union
    The Quaintness-and Usefulness-of the Old Chinese Traditions: The Yellow Jacket and Lady Precious Stream
    'Directness, quaintness and squalor'. Aspects of translation and transformation in Franco Leoni's Opera L'Oracolo
    Citizenship and Arbitrary Law-Making: On the Quaintness of Non-national Disenfranchisement
    On the Unique Interpretation of the Aesthetic Category of ‘Pursuit of Quaintness' by Su Shi and Hui Hong