| 单词 |
novel |
| 例句 |
novel noun | adjective
1 noun •curl up with a good novel:book, paperback, hardcover | story, tale, narrative, romance, roman à clef | piece of fiction | bestseller, blockbuster | potboiler, pulp (fiction).
2 adjective •a novel way of making money:new, original, unusual, unfamiliar, unconventional, unorthodox | different, fresh, imaginative, innovative, innovatory, inventive, modern, neoteric, avant-garde, pioneering, groundbreaking, revolutionary | rare, unique, singular, unprecedented | experimental, untested, untried | strange, exotic, newfangled. ANT traditional.WORD TOOLKIT See unfamiliar .Word Toolkits illustrate the difference between close synonyms by means of words typically used with them.WORD NOTE novel Novel manages to pack into five positive letters what unusual, unprecedented, unfamiliar, unconventional, untested, untried, unknown, and unorthodox have to signal with unwieldy and negative un- prefixes. Why use a negative-looking word for a positive thing when novel is so tidily neat and comes without a whiff of disapproval? — EMConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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