- 1出世的、不食人間煙火的
When a person, a way of life, or a set of thoughts is otherworldly, it belongs with God, spirits, prayer, and a world beyond this one — not with buses, bills, and ordinary Tuesday. An otherworldly priest or nun may seem barely interested in money, fashion, or gossip; their mind is somewhere else. People use it of ideas as well as of people: an otherworldly hope is one that looks past daily life toward heaven or some other unseen place. Though actually, speakers also stretch it. A voice, a landscape, or a film can feel otherworldly if it is so strange or so beautiful that it does not seem to belong on this street. The word is not rude, but it can sound dreamy, even a little critical: “She’s a bit otherworldly” may mean she is kind and far away, and not very practical. It is more a book-and-review word than a kitchen-table one, though people will understand it.
組成other + world + -ly. From other world (a world beyond death, or a world that is not this everyday one) + -ly (having the likeness of).
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
otherworldlyadj/ˌʌðəˈwɜːldli/
- 1
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.
- In Just My Type: A Book about Fonts (2010) Simon Garfield describes [Edward] Johnston as 'a gaunt fine-boned man with a full moustache', and there's a picture of him at work with a quill pen that makes him look as other-worldly as a medieval sprite.
- The bull kelp forests off Northern California are sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods, these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200 miles of coast north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
- 2
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with a world different from the tangible world, especially a fantasy, imaginary, or mystical world.
- He had not seen cricket played since the war began; it seemed almost other-worldly, with the click of the bats, and the shrill young voices, under the distant drone of that sky-hornet threshing along to Hendon.
- An almost otherworldly resilience has characterized the 40-year arc of the Clintons' political lives, a well-documented pattern of dazzling success, shattering setback and inevitable recovery.
- 3
Of, concerned with, or preoccupied with spiritual matters.
- Every religion that becomes ascendant, in so far as it is not other-worldly, must necessarily set its stamp upon the methods and administration of the law.
- [Leo] Tolstoy was not a saint, but he tried very hard to make himself into a saint, and the standards he applied to literature were other-worldly ones.
- 4
obsoleterareOf or relating to the imagination or intellect.
- It is easy with the other-worldly gifts to be a schöne Seele [beautiful soul]; but to the large vision of [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe that seemed to be a phase of life that a man might feel all round and leave behind him.
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