quaint的经典引文 quaint的经典引文是什么

1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way;

   "quaint dialect words"
   "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
   

2. 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"
   

3. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);

   "houses with quaint thatched roofs"
   "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
   

1.奇特的；古色古香的;古雅的
Something that isquaint is attractive because it is unusual and rather old-fashioned.

e.g. ...a small,quaint town with narrow streets and traditional half-timbered houses...
一座有着狭窄街道和传统的露木架房屋的古色古香的小镇
e.g. That's how concepts like general welfare start to soundquaint in this age.
就这样，民众福利这一类概念在这个时代开始变得陈旧起来。

1. Grandma lives in a quaint cottage.
   奶奶住在一栋古色古香的别墅里。
2. There were many small lanes in the quaint village.
   在这古香古色的村庄里有很多小巷。
3. They still keep some quaint old customs.
   他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

1. Old photographs seem quaint to us today.
   旧相片现在看来似乎挺古怪。

• The quaint back streets of Kingston.

  出自：J. K. Jerome

• Personalities as..quaint and idiosyncratic as characters in a novel by Dickens.

  出自：D. Cecil

• However quaint this may sound today, it is a notion which has persisted well into our century.

  出自：Classical Quarterly

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

这些形容词均含有“奇怪的，奇异的，新奇的”之意。

queer指一种无法解释的怪诞，强调事物的奇特和不可思议。

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。

funny较通俗用词，指奇怪得滑稽可笑或反常。

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。

curious通常指非常特别或能引起注意、研究或探索的奇特。

peculiar侧重令人奇怪的或独一无二的特性，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。

eccentric指偏离常规的怪异或怪癖。

quaint指古色古香，会人感到既奇怪又有趣。

singular通常指异常或奇特，暗含不同于一般。