exotic
exotic 英 [ɪgˈzɒtɪk] 美 [ɪgˈzɑtɪk]
adj. 异国的；外来的；异国情调的
名词复数:exotics
- Something so unusual that it must be from some unfamiliar place is exotic. An exotic pet might be a panda, instead of a hamster. An exotic trip might be a journey to the Galapagos Islands, instead of to Orlando's Sea World.
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- adj. 异国的；外来的；异国情调的
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1. Find out which of these are native plants and which are exotic (or nonnative).
找出其中哪些是原生植物，哪些是外来（或非本地的）。
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2. Dark matter: this generally refers to "exotic" non-baryonic matter that interacts only weakly with ordinary matter.
暗物质 ：这一般是指“外来的”非重子物质，与普通物质只有较弱的的相互作用。
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3. But thinking of my husband as an exotic species gave me the distance I needed to consider our differences more objectively.
但是，将丈夫作为外来物种给了我空间，我需要这种空间来客观地考虑我们之间的差异。
- 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.
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