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这里为大家介绍下quaint 是什么意思，希望能帮助到各位朋友。

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中英文翻译

adj.

1.离奇有趣的，古雅的；优雅的；奇妙的。

2.(工艺制作等)灵巧的。

短语和例子

a quaint old house 一座古雅的老房子。

adv.

-ly ,-ness n.

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"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"

同义词：old-time, olde worlde,

例句与用法

1.Did you ever hear anything so quaint ?

这样荒廖的话，你以前听过没有？

2.To philip the room seemed quaint and charming .

菲利浦觉得这房间既典雅又迷人。

3.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。

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

栏杆里有一些古雅精致的小建筑物。

5.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。

6.Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .

这儿有一座不很整齐的，砌着三角墙的古色古香的老教堂。

7.Here was an old church, quaint and rambling and gabled .

这儿有一座不很整齐的，砌着三角墙的，古色古香的老教堂。

8.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。

9.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。

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。

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