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peculiar

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源自拉丁語 pecūliāris (「自己的」)，源自pecūlium (「私人財產」)，源自pecus (「牛」)。[1]

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peculiar (比較級 more peculiar，最高級 most peculiar)

  1. 怪異的，離奇的，不尋常的
    The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
    風暴之前天空的樣子很奇怪。
    It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
    看到袋鼠在市裡的街上跳着走很奇怪。
    • 1800, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Deseret Weekly, 卷 41，頁號 379:
      I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
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    • 2001, Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane:
      "Wasn't it peculiar," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
      "Peculiar?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
      "Everything about him is peculiar." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
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    • 2008, Stephen Arnott, Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World:
    近義詞： odd、strange、uncommon、unusual
    反義詞： common、mediocre、ordinary、usual
  2. （在某地或某場合）特有的，特定於...的
    Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
    袋鼠是澳大利亞特有的動物。
    • 1855, Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, transl., Critique of Pure Reason, 卷 1, division 2, translationImmanuel Kant所著的Critik der reinen Vernunft:
      This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
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    • 1863, Thomas Huxley, Collected Essays:
      As soon as that operation has taken place, the food is passed down to the stomach, and there it is mixed with the chemical fluid called the gastric juice, a substance which has the peculiar property of making soluble and dissolving out the nutritious matter in the grass, and leaving behind those parts which are not nutritious;
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    • 1895, Alfred Russel Wallace, 「XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes」, 出自 Island Life:
      But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar, and at least three peculiar species of birds.
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    近義詞： specific
    反義詞： common、general、universal
  3. (過時) 自己的，專屬的
    • 1769, King James Bible, Titus ii. 14:
      Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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    • 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie:
      hymns […] that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
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  4. (過時) 合適的，具體的
    • 1629, John Milton, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity:
      while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
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    • 1697, Dryden, John, transl., Aeneid, translationVirgil所著的Aeneis:
      My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.
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peculiar (複數 peculiars)

  1. 特有的東西，特權，特產，特徵等
    • before 1716, Robert South, Twelve Sermons
      If anything can legalize revenge, it should be injury from an extremely obliged person; but revenge is so absolutely the peculiar of heaven.
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  1. ↑ Funk, W. J., Word origins and their romantic stories, New York, Wilfred Funk, Inc.

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詞源 編輯

源自拉丁語 pecūliāris。

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peculiar m 或 f (陽性和陰性複數 peculiars)

  1. 離奇的
  2. 特有的

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詞源 編輯

借自拉丁語 pecūliāris。

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peculiar m 或 f (複數 peculiares)

  1. 離奇的
    近義詞： esquisito、estranho
  2. 特有的
    近義詞： particular

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  • Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa中的「peculiar」。

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詞源 編輯

源自拉丁語 pecūliāris。

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peculiar (複數 peculiares)

  1. 離奇的
  2. 特有的

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