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This word sits after a job or a skill and says: this person is amazingly good at that thing — a bit more theatrical than a plain “very good.” You read a host extraordinaire, a cook extraordinaire. English kept the French word-order: the describing word comes after the noun, not before. People use it with a smile. It is a little , a little funny; the kind of praise you put in a newspaper profile, a book blurb, or a joke about your uncle. It is not the everyday word for great. If you want a straight, serious word, you say extraordinary (before the noun). Extraordinaire feels like a wink.
非凡的(放在頭銜後面,帶點幽默)
組成Borrowed from French extraordinaire. Doublet of extraordinary: same French word, taken into English twice, now used a little differently.
同家族的字
- extraordinarydoublet — same French extraordinaire, borrowed twice; this one stays after the noun and sounds playful
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。
extraordinaireadj/ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/
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Extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding.
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(of a person) Particularly skilled; unusually active; particularly successful.
- He was a dancer extraordinaire.
- Charlie Parker, saxophonist extraordinaire, released many records.
extraordinairenoun/ɪkˌstɹɔː(ɹ).dɪˈnɛː(ɹ)/
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Something particularly remarkable or outstanding.
- "The very best of Swiss dining in this essentially rural country is as much about experience as culinary extraordinaire."
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。