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核心畫面

You can hold strange as something that doesn't fit the world you know: it sits outside your map — unusual, unfamiliar, or just slightly 'off' — so your mind stops and goes 'that's not how it usually is.' Whether it's a weird event, a face you've never met, or a wrong feeling in your body, the thread is the same: this doesn't match what's normal to you.

可以把 strange 想成「跟你熟悉的世界對不上」的東西：它落在你的地圖之外——不尋常、不認識，或就是哪裡怪怪的—…更多收起可以把 strange 想成「跟你熟悉的世界對不上」的東西：它落在你的地圖之外——不尋常、不認識，或就是哪裡怪怪的——讓你的腦子停一下，心想「平常不是這樣的啊」。不管是一件怪事、一張沒見過的臉，還是身體裡一種說不上來的不對勁，底下那條線都一樣：這個跟你習以為常的「正常」對不起來。

From the word’s history

Strange goes back through Old French 'estrange' to Latin 'extraneus', meaning 'outside, external, not belonging to the household' — the same root that gives us 'extraneous' and 'stranger'. That 'from outside / not one of ours' sense is exactly the picture under all the modern meanings.

strange 可以經由古法語 estrange 一路追到拉丁語 extraneus,意思是「在外面的、外來的、不屬於這個家的」——這也是 extraneous（外來的）和 stranger（陌生人）的同一個字根。那種「從外面來、不是我們這邊的」的感覺，正好就是底下所有現代意思共同的核心畫面。

Online Etymology Dictionary, 'strange' — from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus 'external, foreign'. https://www.etymonline.com/word/strange

Three branches

對不上、奇怪

這一家最貼著核心：一件事不尋常、出乎意料，而且讓人想不通——它落在你對「正常」的預期之外，所以顯得怪。形容詞和它對應的口語副詞都放在這裡。

odd · adjective · A2

Not usual or expected, in a way you cannot easily explain.

奇怪

陌生、沒見過

把「在你的世界之外」用在人、地方上：不是事情怪，而是這個人、這個地方你從沒見過、沒去過——它對你來說是「外來的」，所以不認識、不熟悉。

unfamiliar · adjective · A2

Not familiar, because you have not seen, met, or been there before.

陌生的

身體不對勁

把「跟正常對不上」收進身體裡：不是外面的事怪，而是你自己的身體或感覺哪裡不太對勁——偏離了平常那個舒服、正常的狀態。

feeling off, unwell · adjective · A2

Feeling as if something is slightly wrong or not normal, in your body or your feelings.

不舒服

原始詞典資料17 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。

Strangename

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.

strangeadj/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.

    • He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
    • I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
  • 2

    Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.

    • I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
    • […] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
  • 3

    slangOutside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.

    • When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]
    • Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
  • 4

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsHaving the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.

    • A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesOf an attractor: having a fractal structure.

  • 6

    obsoleteBelonging to another country; foreign.

    • I take goyng thither [to Italy], and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous […] not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]
    • […] one of the strange queen’s lords.
  • 7

    obsoleteReserved; distant in deportment.

    • Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
    • She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
  • 8

    obsoleteBackward; slow.

    • That to his name your barrenneſſe adds rule; / VVho louing the effect, vvould not be ſtrange / In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit, / And gaine vvill quickly point the miſchiefe out.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    obsoleteNot familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.

    • I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
  • 10

    lawNot belonging to one.

strangeverb/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo alienate; to estrange.

  • 2

    obsoleteTo be estranged or alienated.

  • 3

    obsoleteTo wonder; to be astonished at (something).

    • [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]

strangenoun/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/

  • 1

    slangSex outside of one's current relationship.

    • It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
    • All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
  • 2

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA strange quark.

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。