核心畫面

Think of bumping into something so strange and off that your mind can't quite settle it — and from that feeling comes the verb: to give someone exactly that , can't-place-it jolt.

可以想成你碰到一樣東西,怪到讓你腦袋安放不下來——說不上來哪裡不對,就是不尋常、不好理解。weird 的形容詞抓的就更多收起可以想成你碰到一樣東西,怪到讓你腦袋安放不下來——說不上來哪裡不對,就是不尋常、不好理解。weird 的形容詞抓的就是「那樣東西本身很怪」;而動詞 weird out 抓的是「那股怪勁帶給人的感覺」:把人弄得心裡發毛、渾身不自在。一個講事物怪,一個講這份怪讓人起雞皮疙瘩,兩邊其實是同一股「怪」的兩面。

原始詞典資料16 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。

weirdadj/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.

    • There are lots of weird people in this place.
  • 2

    Deviating from the normal; bizarre.

    • It was quite weird to bump into all my ex-girlfriends on the same day.
    • It was weird for him to watch boys play with Barbie dolls.
  • 3

    Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").

    • a weird story
    • In his introduction to the 1955 volume, [Ray] Bradbury singles out these stories as oddities in his canon — he wrote this kind of tale before his twenty-sixth birthday (1946), and rarely since. They are pure fantasy of the "weird" sort and include some of Bradbury's most striking pieces: "The Scythe" (1943), "The Lake" (1944), "The Jar" (1944), "Skeleton" (1945), and "The Small Assassin" (1946)
  • 4

    Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.

    • Whiles I ſtood rapt in the wonder of it, came Miſſiues from the King, who all-hail'd me Thane of Cawdor, by which Title before, these weyward Sisters saluted me, and referr'd me to the comming on of time, with haile, King that ſhalt be.
  • 5

    Related to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft or unearthliness; uncanny; unearthly.

    • Those sweet, low tones, that seemed like a weird incantation.
    • It may be in that dark hour at the burn-foot, before the spate caught her, she had been given grace to resist her adversary and fling herself upon God's mercy. And it would seem that it had been granted; for when he came to the Skerburnfoot, there in the corner sat the weird wife Alison, dead as a stone.
  • 6

    Having super- or preternatural power.

    • Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.

weirdnoun/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    archaicFate; destiny; luck.

    • Step by reluctant step, he had come to know his weird. The North must be saved from her.
    • In the weird of death shall the hapless be whelmed, and from Doom’s dark prison Shall she steal forth never again.
  • 2

    A prediction.

  • 3

    obsoleteA spell or charm.

    • Thou shalt bear thy penance lone, / In the Valley of Saint John, / And this weird shall overtake thee;— / Sleep, until a knight shall wake thee, / For feat of arms as far renowned / As warrior of the Table Round.
  • 4

    That which comes to pass; a fact.

  • 5

    archaicThe Fates.

  • 6

    Weirdness.

    • You know why it feels so good to be amongst real friends? They allow you to be your weird and love you for it. Imagine how it would feel to freely let your weird out and have the world love you for it.

weirdverb/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.

  • 2

    To warn solemnly; adjure.

weirdadv/ˈwɪə(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    In a strange manner.

    • I waltzed into that club just as straight as a goose and I kept tripping over things and people were looking at me weird.
    • Man, you're talking weird!

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。