quaintness

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英 [kweɪntnəs]

美 [kweɪntnəs]

是什么意思

离奇有趣，古怪的事物；

英英释义

quaintness[ kweintnis ]

n.
- the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned
  "she liked the old cottage"; "its quaintness was appealing"
- strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned
  "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"

学习怎么用

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

But, in spite of their quaintness, a little study revealed that the old reading books have many redeeming features.
可是，只要稍加研究就不难发现，老书尽管古怪，却包含着不少优点。

权威例句

Quaintness
Quaintness
The unbearable quaintness of neurology
“QUAINTNESS” IN PAULINE SMITH: OBSERVATIONS ON HER STYLE AND DIALOGUE
The quaintness of the U.S. intelligence community: Its origin, theory, and problems
The color of quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, black song, and American union
The Quaintness-and Usefulness-of the Old Chinese Traditions: The Yellow Jacket and Lady Precious Stream
'Directness, quaintness and squalor'. Aspects of translation and transformation in Franco Leoni's Opera L'Oracolo
Citizenship and Arbitrary Law-Making: On the Quaintness of Non-national Disenfranchisement
On the Unique Interpretation of the Aesthetic Category of ‘Pursuit of Quaintness' by Su Shi and Hui Hong

同根词

quaintly quaint

q开头的单词