peculiar
英 [p?'kju?l??]
美[p?'kjul??]
- adj. 特殊的；獨(dú)特的；奇怪的；罕見(jiàn)的
- n. 特權(quán)；特有財(cái)產(chǎn)
英英釋意
- 1. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;
- "a curious hybrid accent"
- "her speech has a funny twang"
- "they have some funny ideas about war"
- "had an odd name"
- "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"
- "something definitely queer about this town"
- "what a rum fellow"
- "singular behavior"
- 2. unique or specific to a person or thing or category;
- "the particular demands of the job"
- "has a paraticular preference for Chinese art"
- "a peculiar bond of sympathy between them"
- "an expression peculiar to Canadians"
- "rights peculiar to the rich"
- "the special features of a computer"
- "my own special chair"
- 3. markedly different from the usual;
- "a peculiar hobby of stuffing and mounting bats"
- "a man...feels it a peculiar insult to be taunted with cowardice by a woman"-Virginia Woolf
- 4. characteristic of one only; distinctive or special;
- "the peculiar character of the Government of the U.S."- R.B.Taney