英语释义

• attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);

  "houses with quaint thatched roofs"

  "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

• 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"

片语

Mary Quaint千鸟纹大衣

quaint t离奇有趣的

quaint quaint古怪有趣的

quaint portents异兆

Shuzi Quaint树姿古雅

strangead 奇怪地；陌生地，冷淡地

Quaint Rough古朴粗犷

quaint dance古雅的舞曲

Or Quaint或古朴

peculiar特权；特有财产

Quaint Buildings奇异建筑

英汉例句

• for those that don’t know what nixie tubes are, they were used back in 1969 in calculators and are quaint neon display tubes.

  跟那些不知数码管为何物的朋友提个醒，数码管是十分精巧氖气显示管，在1969就被用于计算器中。

• from rice patties, to volcanoes, quaint balinese villages, a trip to bali is a trip of a lifetime.

  从肉饼饭到火山，再到古朴的巴厘岛村落，巴厘岛一定是你终身难忘的旅程。

• apostrophes that once distinguished between 「its」 and 「it「s」 seem quaint and arbitrary.

  曾经区分「its」和「it’s」中的省略符「’」看上去奇怪且含义不清。

• mere mechanical reproduction: how simple and even quaint modernist anxieties seem now, from the vertigo vantage of the internet age.

  纯粹的呆板重复：由于网络时代所呈现的令人眩晕的高度，现代人的焦虑现在看来是多么的普通甚至奇怪。

• it seems quaint that critics once complained that finance was all about untrammelled markets and deregulation.

  批评家曾经抱怨金融业务都在围绕着不受制约的市场和违规行为打转，眼下这倒显得奇怪。

• and your quaint honour turn to dust;

  你的古雅声名将幻化为尘

• this new policy had the quaint title ”strategic patience.

  这项新政策有个古怪的名字「战略耐心。」

• oxford university still has a 「new college」 which was a good label in 1379 to distinguish it from existing bits of the university.it seems a bit quaint now.

  牛津大学的「新院」是1379年设立的，起这个名字是为了区别于学校里已有的学院，到如今这名字已经带上了一丝古韵。

• scattered along poland」s baltic coast are white sandy beaches and a collection of quaint seaside towns that do not seem to have quite left the 19th century.

  波罗的海沿岸散布着白沙滩和许多保留着19世纪风格的古雅小镇。

• in the early years of this decade, when banks did quaint things like making money, the mantra on wall street was: 「be more like goldman sachs」.

  本世纪初，当投行从事诸如赚钱等奇怪营生时，「更像高盛点吧」成了华尔街的祷告词。

• edinburgh’s mix of ancient and modern is sure to take your breath away (3). crowded buildings line sloping (4) streets where discos blend with quaint (5) shops.

  在爱丁堡，古色古香的建筑和现代建筑荟萃一处，足以让你看得目不转睛。 在城里斜坡状的街道上漫步，随处可见迪厅和古雅的小店比肩而立。

• the road is, at first, filled with quaint boutique shops and young couples and friends, but as it advances uphill they give way to small cottage homes and kids playing ball in the street.

  在这条路上起先看到的是一些古色古香的精品店、年轻情侣以及一起出游的朋友们，但再往上走看到的便是小平房院落和街上玩球的孩子们。

相似词

old-fashioned老式的；过时的；守旧的

odd奇数的；古怪的；剩余的；临时的；零散的

curious好奇的，有求知欲的；古怪的；爱挑剔的

colorful华美的；有趣的；富有色彩的

curious好奇的，有求知欲的；古怪的；爱挑剔的

fanciful想象的；稀奇的

scenic风景胜地；风景照片

odd奇数的；古怪的；剩余的；临时的；零散的

old-fashioned老式的；过时的；守旧的

singular单数