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小词详解 | quaint
quaint 英 [kweɪnt] 美 [kweɪnt]
As one of Europe’s biggest industrial firms, though, Airbus is neither quaint nor absurd.
但作为欧洲最大的工业企业之一,空客既不古板,也不荒谬。
——《经济学人》In our current age of email and smartphones, work has pervaded more and more of our waking hours — evenings, mornings, weekends, vacations — rendering the idea of a fixed workday as quaint.
在我们当前的电子邮件和智能手机时代,工作占据了我们越来越多醒着的时间——晚上、早上、周末、假期——让固定工作日的想法显得过时。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 以不同寻常或过时的方式吸引人的
该迎宾员生病后便给解除了许多责任。然后她在一个古朴典雅的海滨村庄休养生息了几天。
After her illness the usher was divested of much of her responsibility. Then she replenished herself in a quaint seaside village for several days.这架管风琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。
The organ has a quaint old-world tone about it.
那个古怪的老太太说咖啡会让她睡不着,暗示她不想喝咖啡。
By saying that coffee would keep her awake, the quaint old lady implicated that she didn't want any.他不合情理的责任感正在减弱。
His quaint sense of duty is waning.
Her awkwardness had all but passed, leaving, if anything, a quaint residue which was as pleasing as perfect grace. 举止上的笨拙已经荡然无存,只留下那么一点有趣的痕迹,使她的一举一动就像最完美的风度一样可爱。
odd: different from what is usual or expected; strange queer: strange; odd outlandish: looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar