preternatural
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词源[编辑]
源自拉丁语 preternātūrālis/praeternātūrālis,源自praeter nātūram,源自praeter (“超越”) + nātūra (“自然”),对比supernatural。
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preternatural (比较级 more preternatural,最高级 most preternatural)
- 怪异的,异常的
- 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal:
- I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
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- 1882, George Edward Ellis, The Red Man and the White Man in North America,页号 152:
- Doubtless there has been some exaggeration in the picturesque and fanciful relations of the almost preternatural skill and cunning of the Indian […]
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- 2014 1月 4, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, “The other Charlotte Brontë girl [online version (3 January 2014): Why Villette is better than Jane Eyre: Everybody knows Jane Eyre, but Charlotte Brontë's greatest and most original novel was her last, Villette]”, 出自 The Daily Telegraph[1], London,页号 R14:
- "Villette! Villette! wrote George Eliot。"It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."
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- 2018, “Quintessential Deckerstar”, 出自 Lucifer:
- D.B. Woodside as Amenadiel: "Something Charlotte said made me think. Maybe celestial beings and humans, Luci maybe they aren't that different."
Tom Ellis as Lucifer Morningstar: "What, are we talking in bed? 'Cause we know all know my skills are preternatural. But I suppose you on the other hand..."- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (过时) 超自然的
- 1817, William Hazlitt, “Macbeth”, 出自 Characters of Shakespeare's Plays:
- Macbeth is like a record of a preternatural and tragical event.
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- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book 1, Chapter 11:
- Not Leonore, in that preternatural midnight excursion with her phantom lover, was more terrified than poor Maggie in this entirely natural ride on a short-paced donkey, [...]
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- 1925, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Ring of Thoth:
- Vansittart Smith, fixing his eyes upon the fellow's skin, was conscious of a sudden impression that there was something inhuman and preternatural about its appearance.
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用法说明[编辑]
- 现代的一般用法中,指的是奇怪但是仍属自然范畴内的现象,比如“preternatural talent”。而在宗教或玄学用法中,和supernatural类似,指“超自然的”,但相较于supernatural较为低级 – 其能作它的同义词,下义词或同类词。比如在天主教神学中preternatural用来形容天使一类生物,而supernatural只用来形容神。
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参考资料[编辑]
- “preternatural”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
延伸阅读[编辑]
- preternatural在英语维基百科上的资料。维基百科 en
加泰罗尼亚语[编辑]
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preternatural m 或 f (阳性和阴性复数 preternaturals)
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延伸阅读[编辑]
- 参见“preternatural” 在 Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició(加泰罗尼亚语词典,第二版), Institut d’Estudis Catalans中的解释。
葡萄牙语[编辑]
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- 断字:pre‧ter‧na‧tu‧ral
形容词[编辑]
preternatural m 或 f (复数 preternaturais)
西班牙语[编辑]
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preternatural (复数 preternaturales)
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延伸阅读[编辑]
- “preternatural”, Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición [西班牙皇家学院字典,第二十三版], 西班牙皇家学院, 2014
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