单词 | exotic |
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音标 | [ig'zɔtik] |
解释 | a.珍奇的;来自异国的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj.珍奇的(striking ly unusual);来自异国的(not native; foreign) 【考】 反义词:endemic(地 方的); indigenous(本土的); mundane(世俗的) 【记】 exo(外面)+tic→外面 来的 【例】 exotic bird species. warm, exotic evenings in the tropics. |
字源 | 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" first recorded in English 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is first 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. |
不择手段背单词 | adj. 珍奇的, 奇异的 = fantastic; 来自外国的 = foreign; 脱衣舞的; n 脱衣舞娘 【记】ex外面-外面来的-奇异的; 脱衣舞的 【反】endemic(adj 地方的; n 地方病); indigenous(adj 本土的); mundane(adj 平凡的; 世俗的) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】esoteric 的反意,esoteric是internal的变体,exoteric是external 的变体;ex 出 + outer 【相关】esoteric 神秘的,深奥的 |
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