strange: [13] The etymological notion underlying strange is of being ‘beyond the usual bounds or boundaries’. This evolved into ‘foreign’ (which survives in the closely related French étrange) and ‘odd’. The word came via Old French estrange from Latin extrāneus ‘foreign, strange’ (source of English extraneous [17]), an adjective based on extrā ‘outward, outside’. Stranger [14] goes back to *extrāneārius, a Vulgar Latin derivative of extrāneus; and another derivative, extrāneāre ‘alienate’, produced English estrange [15]. => estrange, extraneous
strange (adj.)
late 13c., "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown, unfamiliar," from Old French estrange "foreign, alien, unusual, unfamiliar, curious; distant; inhospitable; estranged, separated" (Modern French étrange), from Latin extraneus "foreign, external, from without" (source also of Italian strano "strange, foreign," Spanish estraño), from extra "outside of" (see extra). In early use also strounge, straunge. Sense of "queer, surprising" is attested from late 14c. In nuclear physics, from 1956.
双语例句
1. There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me.
她态度有些奇怪，让我迷惑不解。
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2. I also had a strange feeling in my neck.
我的脖子感觉也很奇怪。
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3. It was strange, how invisible a clerk could feel.
一名办事员会感到如此受人忽视，令人觉得不可思议。
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4. Her husband's body lies buried 2,000 miles away in a strange land.
她丈夫的遗体埋葬在两千英里外一个陌生的国度。
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5. I feel lost and lonely in a strange town alone.