exotic怎么读
音标：英 [ɪg'zɒtɪk; eg-]
美[ɪɡ'zɑtɪk]
exotic是什么意思
- adj. 异国的；外来的；异国情调的
助记提示
1. exotic <===> outlandish. 构词原理及其含义差不多。
中文词源
exotic 外来的，异国的
exot-, 外面，来自ex-. 即外来的，异国的。
英文词源
- 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" in English first recorded 1620s, from notion of "alien, outlandish." In reference to strip-teasers and dancing girls, it is 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, "anything of foreign origin," originally plants.
exotic的双语例句
- 1. He sent a basket of exotic fruit and a card.
- 他送了一篮子异域水果和一张卡片。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Consumers are increasingly interested in the authentically exotic tastes.
- 消费者对于真正的异国风味越来越情有独钟。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.
- 走私活动每年都会导致数千只珍奇鸟类死亡。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He took frequent junkets with friends to exotic locales.
- 他经常和朋友们到一些具有异国情调的地方公款游玩。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. the exotic blooms of the orchid
- 奇异的兰花
来自《权威词典》
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