weird
英 [w??d]
美[w?rd]
- adj. 怪異的；不可思議的；超自然的
- n. （蘇格蘭）命運(yùn)；預(yù)言
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詞態(tài)變化
比較級(jí):?weirder;最高級(jí):?weirdest;副詞:?weirdly;名詞:?weirdness;
助記提示
1. see wrench.
分析：weir——“偉人”的拼音首字母；d——“的”的拼音首字母。
記憶：偉人的舉止都是很古怪的。
分析：weir——“偉人”的拼音首字母；d——“的”的拼音首字母。
記憶：偉人的舉止都是很古怪的。
中文詞源
weird 奇異的，怪異的
來(lái)自PIE*wer,彎，轉(zhuǎn)，紡織，詞源同versus,wreath。原指北歐神話(huà)中編織人命運(yùn)之線的三女神，又稱(chēng)weird sisters,但這三姐妹在傳說(shuō)和文學(xué)作品中都被描繪成無(wú)比怪異的女巫形象，因此引申詞義怪異的，奇怪的。
英文詞源
- weird
- weird: [OE] Originally, weird was a noun, meaning ‘fate, destiny’. Etymologically it denoted ‘that which comes about’: for it was derived from the same base which produced the now obsolete English verb worth ‘come to be, become’ (a relative of German werden ‘become’). It was used adjectivally in Middle English in the sense ‘having power to control fate’ (which is where the weird sisters who confronted Macbeth come in), but the modern sense ‘uncanny’ did not emerge until the early 19th century, inspired by, but taking semantic liberties with, Shakespeare’s use of the word.
=> verse - weird (adj.)
- c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urer "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorean "to become"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."
The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. It felt weird going back to Liverpool.
- 回到利物浦后，感覺(jué)很奇怪。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. That first day was weird.
- 第一天有些怪異。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 3. He's different. He's weird.
- 他與眾不同，有點(diǎn)怪。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. The altered landscape looks unnatural and weird.
- 改造后的景觀看起來(lái)很不自然，極其怪異。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 5. "She was weird." — "How so?"
- “她有些古怪。”——“為什么這么說(shuō)呢？”
來(lái)自柯林斯例句