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 ‘a(chǎn)lienate’, 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.
雙語例句
1. There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me.
她態(tài)度有些奇怪，讓我迷惑不解。
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2. I also had a strange feeling in my neck.
我的脖子感覺也很奇怪。
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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。
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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。
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5. I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone.