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单词 strange
例句
strangestrange /streɪndʒ/ adjective 1 different from what is usual strange
different from what is usual or normal, often in a way that is difficult to understand or explain:
  • She was wearing strange clothes - a red cowboy hat and a pink dress.
  • He is a little strange. Sometimes I see him talking to himself as he walks along the sidewalk.
  • weird
    strange in a way that you do not like or in a way that frightens you:
  • I had a weird feeling in my stomach as I walked up the stairs to meet her.
  • When you use weird or strange to describe other people, it shows that you do not approve of them, and it can be insulting: Marcus is so weird sometimes! | She said some strange things in class.
    funny
    funny means the same as strange but is more informal:
  • The car is making a funny noise.
  • odd AWL
    strange, especially in a way that does not seem right or normal:
  • The police stopped him and checked his car because of his odd behavior.
  • peculiar (formal)
    peculiar means the same as odd but sounds formal:
  • Her grandfather looked at her in a peculiar way, as if he had never seen her before.
  • bizarre
    very unusual and strange:
  • He has some very bizarre ideas about using insects to cure cancer.
  • eccentric
    behaving in a way that is unusual and different from most people. You use eccentric when you want to say that someone is a little strange or different but you do not want to sound disapproving or insulting:
  • Their neighbor was an eccentric man who had over 30 cats.
  • unusual
    different from what is usual or normal:
  • It is a very unusual knife. I've never seen one like it before.
  • abnormal AWL
    different from what is normal, especially in a way that seems worrying or dangerous:
  • Doctors were concerned because she had abnormal levels of sugar in her blood.
  • atypical (formal)
    not having the features that something usually has. Atypical is used especially in scientific language:
  • The steep roof on the house is atypical because most houses in the area have flat roofs.
  • ANTONYMS ➔ see normal, ordinary, usual
    ADVERBS: strangeYou can make the adjectives that mean "different from what is usual" into adverbs by using an -ly ending: Angela was dressed strangely. | The police picked him up because he was behaving oddly. | The levels of sugar in her blood were abnormally high.2 not known strange
    a strange place, person, or thing is one that you do not know, so that you feel a little frightened or worried:
  • I was on my own in a strange town and was feeling lonely.
  • When a strange man approached me in the dark, I got scared and ran.
  • unfamiliar
    if something is unfamiliar, you have never seen it or heard about it before:
  • The handwriting on the envelope was unfamiliar, and Jo wondered who the letter was from.
  • unknown
    unknown means the same as unfamiliar, but sounds more formal and is used especially in writing:
  • The first explorers were visiting unknown territory.
  • The man seemed to be suffering from a disease that was unknown to doctors.
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