strange

英[stre?n(d)?] 美[strend?]

名詞:?strangeness;

strange 外來的，陌生的，奇怪的

來自古法語 estrange,外來的，外部的，來自拉丁語 extraneus,外來的，外部的，來自 extra,外面的，詞源同 extra-,extraneous.引申詞義奇怪的，陌生的。

strange: strange: [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, strange’ (source of English extraneous [17]), an adjective based on extrā ‘outward, outside’. Stranger [14] goes back to *extrāneārius, a Vulgar Latin derivative of extrāneus; and another derivative, extrāneāre ‘alienate’, produced English estrange [15].
=> estrange, extraneous
strange (adj.): late 13c., "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish estra?o), from extra "outside of" (see extra). In early use also strounge, straunge. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from late 14c. In nuclear physics, from 1956.

1. There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me.: 她態度有些奇怪，讓我迷惑不解。

3. It was strange, how invisible a clerk could feel.: 一名辦事員會感到如此受人忽視，令人覺得不可思議。

4. Her husband's body lies buried 2,000 miles away in a strange land.: 她丈夫的遺體埋葬在兩千英里外一個陌生的國度。

5. I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone.: 在陌生的城鎮里只身一人，我感到不知所措、孤單寂寞。