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Exotica are things that feel unusual and because they seem to come from far away — , bright cloth, strange plants, music that sounds like another country. It is a slightly old-fashioned, magazine kind of word, not the one you use for a plastic souvenir from the airport. In the 1950s people even used it for a style of lounge music full of bird calls and fake-island sounds. You almost never point at one object and call it 'an exotica'; the word names a mix, a shelf of foreign-feeling things. Though actually, what counts as exotic depends on where you stand. A Taiwan night market can feel like exotica to a visitor from Europe, and a French bakery can feel like exotica here.
異國風物、帶異國情調的東西
組成Built from exotic; the -a turns it into 'exotic things' as a group.
同家族的字
- exoticthe adjective this noun is built from
- exoticallythe adverb from the same adjective
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。
exoticanoun
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curious, strange, unusual and exotic things.
exoticanoun
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entertainmentlifestylemusicA genre of American music from the 1950s, characterized by an evocative musical focus on the islands of the South Pacific.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。