1、Thisquaint custom should be revived.(应该恢复这一独特的风俗。)
2、Lord, how marvellous a thing it is, the grip his memory doth take upon hisquaint and crazy fancies!(主啊,这是多么奇妙的一件事啊!他的记忆抓住了他那古怪而疯狂的幻想!)
3、It seemsquaint that critics once complained that finance was all about untrammelled markets and deregulation.(批评家曾经抱怨金融业务都在围绕着不受制约的市场和违规行为打转,眼下这倒显得奇怪。)
4、Vistas of the lake reveal a serene scene surrounded by palatial villas, tree-clad mountains, andquaint villages.(湖的景色透露着宁静安详,周围是富丽堂皇的别墅,绿树覆盖的山脉和古雅的村庄。)
5、Apostrophes that once distinguished between "its" and "it's" seemquaint and arbitrary.(曾经区分“its”和“its”中的省略符看上去奇怪且含义不清。)
6、That view now looksquaint.(现在看来,这是一个古怪的观点。)
7、And, the idea of a space ark carrying a boatload of colonists here is aquaint 16th-century notion.(而且,一艘方舟运来大量殖民者的想法也是来自16世纪的古怪念头。)
8、His style isquaint.(他的风格是古灵精怪的。)
9、I think in ten years the TV show 'the Office' will be seen as aquaint antique.(我想10年后或许我们电视节目播放一部“办公室”都会被视为稀奇的古董了。)
10、Or just potter around thequaint little Kalk Bay Harbour.(或者不用开车,仅仅在古色古香的的港口闲逛就能欣赏自然的风光。)
11、Yet talk of an Asian century soundsquaint.(可是亚洲世纪这样的说法仍然显得很奇怪。)
12、Such ambitions now seemquaint.(这样的雄心在今天看来可能很奇怪。)
13、These days in Silicon Valley, a billion dollars seems downrightquaint.(日前,硅谷数十亿美元看起来都不可思议。)
14、Perhaps you saw “ethnography” and assumed it would just bequaint reports from the Amazon and the South Seas.(或许你看到“民俗”这个词就会认为这是关于亚马逊流域以及南部海域那些罕见部族风俗的报道。)
15、Deta had heard from her lady that a sweet,quaint child was wanted as playmate and schoolmate for the invalid.(迪蒂从她的主人那里听说,需要一个甜美又精怪的孩子做病人的玩伴和同学。)
16、Gazetting soundsquaint, but is anything but.(在宪报上刊登听起来古怪,但决不是。)
17、From rice patties, to volcanoes,quaint Balinese villages, a trip to Bali is a trip of a lifetime.(从肉饼饭到火山,再到古朴的巴厘岛村落,巴厘岛一定是你终身难忘的旅程。)
18、Some supposed sources of progress now appear almostquaint.(一些被称为进步的源泉现在看起来几乎有点奇怪。)
19、Everywhere people bemoan the replacement of the local and thequaint by outposts of big, homogeneous chains.(无论哪里,当具有地方性和奇特性的东西被一些大型的单一性的链条代替时,人们都会表示惋惜。)
20、The piano has aquaint old-world tone about it.(这架钢琴的音色具有一种古雅的老式风味。)
21、He was in hot pursuit of his own answer and there were noquaint solutions.(他只是穷追不舍地寻找自己的答案,但是却没有奇特而有趣的解决办法。)
22、"quaint", "charming", "friendly" and "peaceful" are the stock adjectives and it's hard to improve on them.(怎样来形容它呢?宁静,迷人,友好,平和等是现成的形容词,但都难以说尽大马南岛的好处。)
23、It is aquaint and marvellous thought!(这是一个古怪而又奇妙的想法!)
24、The shop and the twoquaint pubs with the over-friendly barmaids are doing a roaring trade.(一家商店,两家老派的酒吧,吧女们的态度热情得过了头。商店和酒吧一概生意兴隆。)
25、Maybe asquaint jewelry, but the correct time is on your smartphone, which is pretty much always in your hand.(手表也许会成为一件古老而别致的首饰,但正确的时间当然是在你的智能手机上——而它几乎总是在你手里。)