| 正面 | 4239.exotic 英 [ɪg'zɒtɪk; eg-]美 [ɪɡ'zɑtɪk]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. exotic <===> outlandish. 构词原理及其含义差不多。adj. 异国的；外来的；异国情调的 例句： 1. He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card.他送了一篮子异域水果和一张卡片。 exotic 外来的，异国的exot-, 外面，来自ex-. 即外来的，异国的。 exotic (adj.)1590s, "belonging to another country," from Middle French exotique (16c.) and directly from Latin exoticus, from Greek exotikos "foreign," literally "from the outside," from exo "outside" (see exo-). Sense of "unusual, strange" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is attested by 1942, American English. Exotic dancer in the nightclub trade means a girl who goes through a few motions while wearing as few clothes as the cops will allow in the city where she is working ... ["Life," May 5, 1947] As a noun from 1640s, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants." |