| 词汇 | motley |
| 释义 | motley adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈmɒt.li/ us /ˈmɑːt.li/ consisting of many different types that do not appear to go together: 混杂的;不同种类的 There's a motley assortment/collection of old furniture in the house we're renting now.我们现在租住的房子里有一堆杂七杂八的旧家具。 The people who turned up for the meeting were a motley crew(= a group consisting of many different types of people).出席会议各色人等都有。 Not of good quality am-dram appallingly atrocious atrociously awfully awfulness cheesy hacky inadequacy inadequate inadequately janky shite sort tawdrily tawdriness tawdry thinness trinket wretched motley | American Dictionarymotley adjective us/ˈmɑt·li/ consisting of many different types, parts, or colors that do not seem to belong together: A motley crew of educators and students gathered at the seminar. Examples of motleymotley It is the study of the means by which we sanction belief in the outcome of simulation studies, despite their motley methodology. Conspicuously absent, even in that very motley picture, are back vowels of any length in the left half of the structure. The motley expressions of civil associational life were of various hues. Occultism swallows up motley discourses whose only shared feature is ideological disenfranchisement. Although jobbers were often represented as an archetype, they were, in fact, a rather motley, indeed heterogeneous, group. They insist, then, on "a single property" because common intuition demands it, but that property can nevertheless be a motley jumble of types of reflectances. Understanding the conceptual change that managed care represents is the first step to a responsible assessment of the motley guises of managed care. Despite care taken in analysis, this was unavoidable due to the small, structurally complex, motley nature of the zircons. The last section is also motley, although interesting. Every act on the motley bills was produced and staged independently. Strip off the motley forms of culture and one finds the structural and functional regularities of social organization. Motley interpreted it as a negative signal. A bonnetmaker may know no more about bonnets than that they are an alternative to bowler hats when going to mix with the motley crowd. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think he can be proud of the motley collection of coins he issues for our use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They seem a rather motley collection of drafting amendments. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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