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quaint adj.离奇有趣的；古色古香的；古怪的 (1) 旧照片现在就我们来看来似乎古怪有趣。(2) 草地和小河很有趣。(3) 奶奶住在一栋古色古香的乡间别墅里。(4) 我们的邻居是位古怪的老太太。 There is a commonly used sarcastic sense of quaint––when something is run down or shabby and you're trying to say something positive, you might substitute "How...quaint" for "How...interesting." In Middle English, this adjective meant clever or cunning. Its origin is Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus "known," from cognōscere "to learn."

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英 [kweɪnt] 美 [kweɪnt] (1) Old photographs seem quaint to us today.(2) The meadow and brook are quaint.(3) Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage.(4) Our neighbor is a quaint old lady. Quaint means strange and unusual in an old-fashioned and charming way. It's a word you'd use to describe a little store that sells tea cozies and antique tea services, or your grandmother's habit of calling the radio the "wireless." 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]奇特的；古色古香的；古雅的 Something that is quaint is attractive because it is unusual and rather old-fashioned. ...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That's how concepts like general welfare start to sound quaint 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。quaintlyThis may seem a quaintly old-fashioned idea.这似乎是一个古怪而落伍的想法。quaintness...the quaintness of the rural north.北方农村的古朴

英语单词	quaint
英美音标	英 [kweɪnt] 美 [kweɪnt]
中文释义	adj.离奇有趣的；古色古香的；古怪的
英语例句	(1) Old photographs seem quaint to us today. (2) The meadow and brook are quaint. (3) Grandma lives in a quaint old cottage. (4) Our neighbor is a quaint old lady.
中文例句	(1) 旧照片现在就我们来看来似乎古怪有趣。 (2) 草地和小河很有趣。 (3) 奶奶住在一栋古色古香的乡间别墅里。 (4) 我们的邻居是位古怪的老太太。
vocabulary简明	Quaint means strange and unusual in an old-fashioned and charming way. It's a word you'd use to describe a little store that sells tea cozies and antique tea services, or your grandmother's habit of calling the radio the "wireless."
vocabulary扩展	There is a commonly used sarcastic sense of quaint––when something is run down or shabby and you're trying to say something positive, you might substitute "How...quaint" for "How...interesting." In Middle English, this adjective meant clever or cunning. Its origin is Old French queinte, cointe, from Latin cognitus "known," from cognōscere "to learn."
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]奇特的；古色古香的；古雅的 Something that is quaint is attractive because it is unusual and rather old-fashioned. ...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 That's how concepts like general welfare start to sound quaint 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。 quaintly This may seem a quaintly old-fashioned idea. 这似乎是一个古怪而落伍的想法。 quaintness ...the quaintness of the rural north. 北方农村的古朴

Quaint Unusual Old Fashioned Tea 英 Kweɪnt] 美 Kweɪnt Adj.离奇有趣的；古色古香的；古怪的