词汇释义
outlandish TEM8 GRE
UK /ˌaʊtˈlæn.dɪʃ/ US /ˌaʊtˈlæn.dɪʃ/
adj, If you describe something as outlandish, you disapprove of it because you think it is very unusual, strange, or unreasonable.稀奇古怪的，异乎寻常的，不切实际的
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外刊例句
1. Moreover, Dent’s strident position may be extreme in the world of market forecasters, but his arguments are anything but outlandish.(Seattle Times)
2. As tax season gets underway, I asked accountants about the outlandish deductions they’ve seen people try to claim.(Washington Post)
3. Trump’s gleeful belief that China is helping to fund the US government via the tariffs is outlandish.(The Guardian)
4. The Chinese billionaire was living in New York, broadcasting allegations of high-level government corruption in China on Twitter and YouTube — some credible, some outlandish and still unproved.(New York Times)
5. Many of his most outlandish claims are made during his show, which runs live for four hours each weekday and is streamed and rebroadcast across the internet.(New York Times)
6. It may sound outlandish, but this dystopia is increasingly what stockmarket investors are banking on.(TheEconomist)
7. Top YouTube stars like Mr. Paul, known for pushing the envelope with outlandish behavior that would not be acceptable on mainstream television, present a particular problem.(New York Times)
8. The improvement is almost entirely due to the influence of private equity on a railway that, when built in British colonial times, seemed such an outlandish venture that it was dubbed the “lunatic line”.(TheEconomist)
9. He was effectively challenging the world to build the seemingly outlandish system, called the Hyperloop.(Time)
10. To that end, small and midsize start-ups are trying to outlast the downturn by cutting back on one of tech's trademark innovations: outlandish spending.(Los Angeles Times)
11.That said, many outlandish tales don’t capture the same human emotion as others do.(Forbes)
12. The firestorm that ensued the publication of his note suggests its central tenets are not outlandish.(TheEconomist)
词汇搭配
outlandish costume, idea, claim, system
词汇家族
outlandishly, outlandishness
词汇来源
Old English utlendisc "of a foreign country, not native," from utland "foreign land," literally "outland" (see out- + land (n.)) + -ish. The original sense is archaic or obsolete. The meaning "unfamiliar, strange, odd, uncouth, bizarre" (such as the customs of foreigners may seem to natives) is attested from 1590s. Compare German ausländisch, Danish udenlandsk, etc. Old English utland also could mean "land lying beyond the limits of occupation or cultivation," a sense that survived into Modern English.
近义词
bizarre, unusual, eccentric, erratic, peculiar, queer, strange, weird, exotic, fantastic
反义词
familiar, unexotic, unromantic, average, commonplace, everyday, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, standard, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual
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