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motley

英 [ˈmɒtli]

美 [ˈmɑːtli]

adj.  混杂的; 杂七杂八的
n.  (丑角穿的)杂色衣服; 小丑

过去分词:motleyed 

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Collins.1 / BNC.18743 / COCA.16138

牛津词典

    adj.

    • 混杂的;杂七杂八的
      consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together
      1. The room was filled with a motley collection of furniture and paintings.
        屋子里摆满了五花八门的家具和绘画。
      2. The audience was a motley crew of students and tourists.
        观众是一群混杂在一起的学生和游客。

    柯林斯词典

    • ADJ-GRADED 杂七杂八的;混杂的
      You can describe a group of things as amotleycollection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different.
      1. ...a motley collection of vans, old buses, cattle-trucks, and even a fire engine...
        杂七杂八的一堆车,有运货车、旧公共汽车、运牛车,甚至救火车
      2. The volunteers seem a motley crew.
        志愿者里似乎什么人都有。

    双语例句

    • Motley crowds and jumbled huts of old Tienstin-view soon after the city was occupied-China.
      混杂的人群和天津市乱七八糟的小房子,在天津被占领后向南门里看。
    • Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a motley cast of characters.
      于是哈克和吉姆一同开始历险的征程,并遇到了许多不同个性的人们。
    • At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts, sheepskins, and rabbit fur.
      在东海望有人用海狸皮,绵羊皮,和野兔皮给他缝了一间杂色花衣。
    • The FARSCAPE crew is a motley band of renegades.
      FARSCAPE全体人员是一根叛徒的杂色的带子。
    • A motley crew they are, their doings as dark as they are ludicrous ( John Simon)
      他们是一群行踪诡秘,为人荒唐可笑的乌合之众(约翰西蒙)
    • The lights changed to green, and the car moved forward in a motley sea of traffic and humanity.
      此时指挥交通的灯光换了绿色,吴老太爷的车子便又向前进。
    • And let's have a quick look at our company's motley lineup of worker bees and their hardware.
      接下来,让我们快速地查看一下公司里忙碌地工蜂们及他们的硬件。
    • Motley makes his villains excessively villainous and his heroes wearisomely heroic.
      莫特利把坏人写得过于无赖,把他的英雄写得过于英勇。
    • Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this troop.
      没有什么比这种队伍更奇特和光怪陆离的了。
    • We were a motley group loosely held together by some common threads.
      我们是一个松散的五花八门组举行一些共同的线索在一起。