extraordinary
adjective /ɪkˈstrɔːdnri/
/ɪkˈstrɔːrdəneri/
- unexpected, surprising or strange
意想不到的；令人惊奇的；奇怪的 - What an extraordinary thing to say!
真是咄咄怪事！ - The president took the extraordinary step of apologizing publicly for his behaviour!
总统采取了非同寻常的步骤，为自己的行为公开道歉！ - We are a normal family dealing with extraordinary circumstances.
我们是一个处理非常情况的正常家庭。 - it is extraordinary that… It's extraordinary that he managed to sleep through the party.
真想不到他竟然从聚会开始一直睡到结束。 - it is extraordinary how… It is extraordinary how little evidence supports this view.
支持这一观点的证据少得惊人。
- What makes it so extraordinary is that the experts had all dismissed her theories as nonsense.
非常奇怪的是，专家们都认为她的理论是胡说八道而不屑一顾。 - The discussion was about the treatment of extraordinary items in the company accounts.
讨论是关于公司账目中非常项目的处理。 - It seems extraordinary that she could have got away with this for so long.
她能逃脱这么长时间似乎很不寻常。 - I find it extraordinary that anybody on a murder charge should be given bail.
我觉得任何被指控谋杀的人都应该被保释是很不寻常的。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
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- What an extraordinary thing to say!
- not normal or ordinary; greater or better than usual
不平常的；不一般的；非凡的；卓越的 - an extraordinary achievement
卓越的成就 - She was a truly extraordinary woman.
她是位非常杰出的女性。 - They went to extraordinary lengths to explain their behaviour.
他们竭力为自己的行为辩解。 - The film tells the extraordinary story of two people struggling to survive in the Arctic.
这部电影讲述了两个人在北极挣扎求生的非凡故事。 - The response from the public has been quite extraordinary.
公众的反应相当不同寻常。
- The portrait does not do justice to her extraordinary beauty.
这幅画像没有展现出她非凡的美丽。 - The festival offers an extraordinary range of artistic events.
这个节日提供了一系列不同寻常的艺术活动。 - She must have been an extraordinary artist to work with.
她一定是一位与众不同的艺术家。 - I found an extraordinary number of errors in the document.
我在文档中发现了相当多的错误。 - He did the work with extraordinary energy and good humour.
他以非凡的精力和良好的幽默感完成了这项工作。 - He used the extraordinary powers granted to him by Parliament to introduce economic reforms.
他利用议会授予他的非凡权力推行经济改革。
- an extraordinary achievement
- [only before noun] (formal) (of a meeting, etc.
会议等 特别的；临时的 - An extraordinary meeting was held to discuss the problem.
举行了特别会议讨论这个问题。 - The ruling Socialist Party held an extraordinary congress in July, two months before the annual congress.
执政的社会党在7月份举行了一次特别代表大会，比年度代表大会提前了两个月。
- An extraordinary meeting was held to discuss the problem.
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紧接名词之后 官员 特派的；特命的 - an envoy extraordinary
特使
- an envoy extraordinary
词源late Middle English: from Latin extraordinarius, from extra ordinem ‘outside the normal course of events’.