词汇 | exotic |
释义 | exotic adjective uk /ɪɡˈzɒt.ɪk/ us /ɪɡˈzɑː.t̬ɪk/ B2 unusual and exciting because of coming (or seeming to come) from far away, especially a tropical country: 异国风情的,外国情调的;奇异的 exotic flowers/food/designs奇花异草/外国风味的食物/奇异的设计 unusual unusualThat's an unusual name - where does it come from? uncommonIt's not uncommon(= it is common) for people to become ill when they travel. rareThis is a rare opportunity to visit the building. unconventionalI had a very unconventional childhood. uniqueThis is your chance to own a unique piece of jewellery. The courtyard was full of exotic plants in terracotta pots. The menu described the dessert as 'a medley of exotic fruits'.菜单上说这道甜点“汇集各种异域水果”。 We only had half an hour to see her before she was whisked off to some exotic location.在她被匆匆送往国外某地之前,我们只有半个小时时间和她会面。 Wherever does he get the money from to go on all these exotic journeys?出国旅行这么多趟,他究竟是从哪儿弄到的钱? She has rather a penchant for exotic clothes. Unique and unusual accidental alt- alternative atypically be marked out as somethingidiom flip the scriptidiom guerrilla home brew incongruous inimitable personalization personalized quaintly quaintness quirkily unique uniquely unmatchable unmatched unparalleled Related wordexoticallyadverb exotic | American Dictionaryexotic adjective[ not gradable ] us/ɪɡˈzɑt̬·ɪk/ unusual and specially interesting because of coming from a country that is far away: exotic pets like snakes and tropical birds Examples of exoticexotic Transparency is not a particularly exotic phenomenon because it frequently occurs in natural contexts. Initially, responses to them exhibit a combination of fascination with the exotic and a markedly undemocratic appreciation of their aristocratic heritage. Travelling in space to ' exotic ' realms evidently encourages the imagination to travel in time. The extravagant costume evidently fit more conveniently into their exotic notions of their surroundings. As economic globalization continues, the unintentional introduction of exotic marine species will increase. Others argue that exotic style is mostly confined to female, hence powerless, characters. But the exotic object described above cannot be owned or even valued with any certainty; it stimulates curiosity, not proprietariness. Bioinvasions involving exotic pests are also an undesirable element of the globalization of agriculture. Moreover, exotic lithic materials link sites with specific source areas which are important in the reconstruction of regional settlement-subsistence systems. And along with the products were coined new and exotic names. But the quest for unknown landscapes, and the search for the exotic remained keen. In addition, small-scale surveys of invasive species will be biased toward areas that contain exotic species. Will tropical forests also be overwhelmed by exotic species, or do tropical forests possess some resistance against invasive species? It turned the exotic background sounds of folk music into leading characters, larger than life, revealing in minute detail their inner qualities. Religious differences are not comic but a source of bloodthirstiness, and religious conversion figures importandy as the exotic female assimilates into western religion. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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