quaint

quaint怎么读

英式音标：[kweɪnt]

美式音标：[kwent]

quaint基本解释

adj. 古雅的；奇怪的；离奇有趣的；做得很精巧的

quaint的意思释义

adj.

古色古香的；少见的，古怪的；离奇有趣的，；做得精巧的

双语释义

adj.(形容词)

古色古香的 charmingly old-fashioned

少见的，古怪的unusual;odd;strange

英英释义

quaint[ kweint ]

adj.

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\"; \"came forth a quaint and fearful sight\"; \"a quaint sense of humor\"

attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)

\"houses with quaint thatched roofs\"

同义词：old-timeolde worlde

quaint用法及例句

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

quaint dresses古怪的服装

quaint village customs稀奇古怪的农村习俗

同近义词辨析

eccentric, peculiar, strange, queer, curious, crazy, funny, odd, singular, quaint

这组词都有“奇怪的，奇异的，新奇的”的意思，其区别是：

eccentric指偏离常规的怪异或怪癖。

peculiar侧重令人奇怪的或的特性，也指性格特征方面显著的与众不同之处。

strange普通常用词，含义广泛，指陌生新奇、奇怪、奇怪或不自然的人或物。

queer指一种无法解释的怪诞，强调事物的奇特和不可思议。

curious通常指非常特别或能引起注意、研究或探索的奇特。

crazy多指与众不同的行为、外表或人与物本身，含荒唐可笑或神经不正常的意味。

funny较通俗用词，指奇怪得滑稽可笑或反常。

odd通常指不规律、偶尔出现的人或事物，往往令人困惑或奇怪。

singular通常指异常或奇特，暗含不同于一般。

quaint指古色古香，会人感到既奇怪又有趣。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

Old photographs seem quaint to us today.

旧照片现在就我们来看来似乎古怪有趣。

The meadow and brook are quaint.

草地和小河很有趣。

Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage.

奶奶住在一栋古色古香的乡间别墅里。

Our neighbor is a quaint old lady.

我们的邻居是位古怪的老太太。

They still keep some quaint old customs.

他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

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quaint词源

quaint

quaint: [13] Quaint was once a more wholehearted term of approval than it is now. In Middle English it meant ‘clever’ or ‘finely or skilfully made’. Its current sense ‘pleasantly curious’ did not emerge until the 18th century. It comes via Old French coint from Latin cognitus ‘known’, the past participle of cognōscere ‘know’ (source of English recognize). The word’s meaning evolved in Old French via the notion of someone who ‘knows’ about something, and hence is an expert at it or is skilful in doing it.=> cognition, recognize

quaint (adj.)

c. 1200, cointe, \"cunning, ingenious; proud,\" from Old French cointe \"knowledgeable, well-informed; clever; arrogant, proud; elegant, gracious,\" from Latin cognitus \"known, approved,\" past participle of cognoscere \"get or come to know well\" (see cognizance). Modern spelling is from early 14c.Later in English, \"elaborate, skillfully made\" (c. 1300); \"strange and clever\" (mid-14c.). Sense of \"old-fashioned but charming\" is first attested 1795, and could describe the word itself, which had become rare after c. 1700 (though it soon recovered popularity in this secondary sense). Related: Quaintly; quaintness.

quaint相关例句

1.On the face of it, life was a mixture of the quaint and the archaic.

从表面上看来，生活是离奇有趣的事物和古老事物的混合体。

2.I liked Nina, too; she was so quaint and unexpected.

我也很喜欢尼娜；她是那样离奇有趣，不可捉摸。

3.The quaint Persian city has been engulfed by a roaring metropolis.

那富有奇趣的波斯城市已经被一座喧嚣的大都会所吞没。

4.The piano has a quaint old-world tone about it.

这架钢琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。

5.It might have been the trees he was addressing on the quaint customs of crystals.

他似乎是对树木作关于晶体的奇妙习性的发言。

6.Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque.

本来只可以说有一点奇异的东西，现在都变得光怪陆离。

7.To Philip the room seemed quaint and charming.

菲利浦觉得这房间既典雅又迷人。

8.Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings.

栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物。

9.His ideas were quaint and fantastic. She brought him judiciously to earth.

他的看法荒廖古怪，她颇有见识地劝他面对现实。

10.He loved Mrs. Leives, with her unworldliness and her quaint cynicism.

他爱莱弗斯太太，她超脱世俗，离奇古雅，愤世嫉俗。