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preternatural

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源自拉丁语 preternātūrālis/praeternātūrālis，源自praeter nātūram，源自praeter (“超越”) + nātūra (“自然”)，对比supernatural。

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preternatural (比较级 more preternatural，最高级 most preternatural)

  1. 怪异的，异常的
    近义词：inexplicable、exceptional、extraordinary、abnormal、uncanny
    • 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal:
      I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
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    • 1882, George Edward Ellis, The Red Man and the White Man in North America，第 152 页:
      Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian […]
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    • 2014年1月4日, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, “The other Charlotte Brontë girl [online version (3 January 2014): Why Villette is better than Jane Eyre: Everybody knows Jane Eyre, but Charlotte Brontë's greatest and most original novel was her last, Villette]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph‎[1], London，第 R14 页:
      "Villette! Villette! wrote George Eliot。"It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
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    • 2018, “Quintessential Deckerstar”, 出自 Lucifer:
      D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel: "Something Charlotte said made me think. Maybe celestial beings and humans, Luci maybe they aren't that different."
      Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar: "What, are we talking in bed? 'Cause we know all know my skills are preternatural. But I suppose you on the other hand..."
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  2. (过时) 超自然的
    近义词：paranormal、supernatural、unnatural
    • 1817, William Hazlitt, “Macbeth”, 出自 Characters of Shakespeare's Plays:
      Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.
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    • 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 1, Chapter 11:
      Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
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    • 1925, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Ring of Thoth:
      Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance.
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  • 现代的一般用法中，指的是奇怪但是仍属自然范畴内的现象，比如“preternatural talent”。而在宗教或玄学用法中，和supernatural类似，指“超自然的”，但相较于supernatural较为低级 – 其能作它的同义词，下义词或同类词。比如在天主教神学中preternatural用来形容天使一类生物，而supernatural只用来形容神。

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词源上与praeter (“越过”)有关的词

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加泰罗尼亚语

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借自拉丁语 praeternaturālis。

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preternatural m 或 f (阳性和阴性复数 preternaturals)

  1. 怪异的，异常的

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  • 断字：pre‧ter‧na‧tu‧ral

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preternatural m 或 f (复数 preternaturais)

  1. 怪异的，异常的

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  • 国际音标(帮助): /pɾeteɾnatuˈɾal/ [pɾe.t̪eɾ.na.t̪uˈɾal]
  • 韵部：-al
  • 断字：pre‧ter‧na‧tu‧ral

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preternatural (复数 preternaturales)

  1. 怪异的，异常的

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