eerie
eerie 英 [ˈɪəri] 美 [ˈɪri]
adj. 可怕的；怪异的
- Eerie means spooky, creepy or suggestively supernatural. If it's eerie, it's sure to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
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- adj. 可怕的；怪异的
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1. Without doubt the saddest moment in the history of Brazilian football was met by an eerie, haunting silence in the gigantic stadium.
巨大的球场陷入了一种可怕的寂静，这无疑是巴西足球史上最伤心的时刻，让人无法忘却。
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2. The office is an eerie place at night.
晚上的办公室是个比较怪异的地方。
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3. But a month ago as I prepared to publish and promote my latest detective novel, "Nine Dragons, " I learned of a true mystery with eerie similarities and connections to my story and my research.
但一个月之前，我在准备出版和宣传我的最新侦探小说《九龙》时，听说了一个和我的小说和研究有着可怕惊人相似点和关联的真实案例。
- eerie (adj.) also eery, c. 1300, "timid, affected by superstitious fear," north England and Scottish variant of Old English earg "cowardly, fearful, craven, vile, wretched, useless," from Proto-Germanic *argaz (source also of Old Frisian erg "evil, bad," Middle Dutch arch "bad," Dutch arg, Old High German arg "cowardly, worthless," German arg "bad, wicked," Old Norse argr "unmanly, voluptuous," Swedish arg "malicious"). Sense of "causing fear because of strangeness" is first attested 1792. Finnish arka "cowardly" is a Germanic loan-word.
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