weird

• adj. 怪异的；不可思议的；超自然的
• n. （苏格兰）命运；预言

来自PIE*wer,弯，转，纺织，词源同versus,wreath。原指北欧神话中编织人命运之线的三女神，又称weird sisters,但这三姐妹在传说和文学作品中都被描绘成无比怪异的女巫形象，因此引申词义怪异的，奇怪的。

1. suggesting the operation of supernatural influences;

"an eldritch screech"

"the three weird sisters"

"stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy

"an unearthly light"

"he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley

2. strikingly odd or unusual;

"some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker

weird

weird: [OE] Originally, weird was a noun, meaning ‘fate, destiny’. Etymologically it denoted ‘that which comes about’: for it was derived from the same base which produced the now obsolete English verb worth ‘come to be, become’ (a relative of German werden ‘become’). It was used adjectivally in Middle English in the sense ‘having power to control fate’ (which is where the weird sisters who confronted Macbeth come in), but the modern sense ‘uncanny’ did not emerge until the early 19th century, inspired by, but taking semantic liberties with, Shakespeare’s use of the word.
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weird (adj.)

c. 1400, "having power to control fate, from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes," from Proto-Germanic *wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"), from PIE *wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"), from root *wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus). For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

The sense "uncanny, supernatural" developed from Middle English use of weird sisters for the three fates or Norns (in Germanic mythology), the goddesses who controlled human destiny. They were portrayed as odd or frightening in appearance, as in "Macbeth" (and especially in 18th and 19th century productions of it), which led to the adjectival meaning "odd-looking, uncanny" (1815); "odd, strange, disturbingly different" (1820). Related: Weirdly; weirdness.

Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

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Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye?

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We fear rejection, or that our innocent social advances will be misinterpreted as "weird".

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a weird dream

离奇的梦

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She's a really weird girl.

她真是个古怪的女孩。

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He's got some weird ideas.

他有些怪念头。

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It's really weird seeing yourself on television.

看到自己上了电视感觉怪怪的。

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the weird and wonderful creatures that live beneath the sea

奇异美丽的海底生物

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She began to make weird inhuman sounds.

她开始发出可怕的非人的声音。

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The town was weirdly familiar.

这个城镇怪面熟的。

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That first day was weird...

第一天有些怪异。

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He's different. He's weird...

他与众不同，有点怪。

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The door opened by itself, which was weird.

真惊怪!没人推, 门自己开了.

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Andrew Crean , an analyst at Citigroup , thinks that weird accounting is partly to blame.

花期集团的一个分析家AndrewCrean认为怪诞的账目多少难辞其咎.

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That wacko talks to himself in a weird language.

那个怪人用一种奇怪的语言自言自语.

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He admitted that snogging Emma , who plays Granger in the movie, was a bit weird.

他承认亲吻在电影里扮演赫敏的艾玛, 感觉有点怪.

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Lizzie : Weird Girl, what are you doing?

怪女孩, 你在干吗?

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Why? I know it's a little weird, but he a great doctor, okay?

为什么? 我知道这是有点怪但是他是个很棒的医生, 好 吗 ?

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As she is a little weird body, the body of the story unfolds completely out.

由于她是稍微侧着身子, 身体曲线完全地展露出来了.

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And Gwyneth here has obviously done something weird here.

在这里明明是葛妮丝选了个怪字.

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To be honest, I think they're kind of weird.

老实说, 我认为他们有点怪异.

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It is weird to spend a lot of money to alter that old candy store.

花那么钱去改造那个破旧的糖果店,实在令人不解.

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THERE IS SOMETHING WEIRD IN IT.

这里面有蹊跷.

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When it was all over, a lot of talk about this weird event.

事情虽然结束了, 可是有很多关于这件怪事的议论.

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TF: What is the craziest, funniest, most weird scene that you did in The L Word?

你在拍摄《拉字之上》时,最疯狂 、 最搞笑 、 最奇怪的场面是 什么 ?

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If we have weird , as as wish the dog as the showpiece, don't get the Lab.

如果你有洁癖,而你养狗是拿来当展示品, 不要养拉拉.

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From his weird behaviour, he seems a bit of an oddity.

从他不寻常的行为看来, 他好像有点怪.

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Space with its weird cries came between.

浩瀚空间里的奇怪噪音总是混杂进来.

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His weird clothes really gas me.

他的怪衣裳简直笑死人.

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It was a weird old house , full of creaks and groans.

这是所神秘而可怕的旧宅,到处嘎吱嘎吱作响.

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She has some weird ideas.

她有一些怪念头.

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