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Looking, sounding, or feeling like the countryside rather than the city. You might describe a small wooden house, a thick accent, a kitchen full of dried flowers, or someone's slow way of talking as countrified. Here's the honest part, though. The word carries a small sneer more often than not. When a city person says a place is countrified, they usually mean it's a bit behind the times, a bit simple, not quite smart enough. So it can hurt if you say it about a person. Say "he's a bit countrified" and English speakers will hear "he doesn't quite know how the city works." But it has a second life, and this one is warm: things that are made countrified on purpose. A café in the middle of with old wooden chairs and checked is countrified — nobody there grew up on a farm, they chose that look. Here it means , , deliberately old-fashioned. Whether the word is a criticism or a compliment depends almost entirely on whether the country feeling came naturally or was bought. You may also see it spelled countryfied. Both are fine. It's not a common word — much rarer than rural or country — and it sounds a little dated, the kind of word an older writer reaches for.
鄉土味的、土氣的(帶點城市人看鄉下的貶意);用在店面裝潢時則是「鄉村風的」
組成country + -fy ("make into") + -ed. So: made country-like. Country itself is a surprise — it comes from Latin contrā, "against, opposite," through a phrase meaning "the land lying opposite" — that is, the land spread out in front of you when you look out from town.
同家族的字
- contraryalso from Latin contrā, "against"
- simplifysame -fy ending, from Latin facere "to make"
- countrysidesame country
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
countrifiedadj/ˈkʌntɹɪfʌɪd/
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Rural, rustic; unsophisticated.
- Although houses and factories appeared in great profusion in the 1930s, there still remain odd groups of cottages dating from an earlier and more countrified period.
- There was this hot little countrified sistah who had caught my eye during the beginning of freshman year, but I just hadn't had a chance to work my way around to her yet.
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Having the characteristics of country music.
- Over the next couple of years, a few more countrified albums appeared, and to more singles—"Tarkio Road" (#55, 1971) and "Shake Off The Demons (#98, 1972)—won positions on the Hot 100.
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資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。