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eerie

/eer-ee/US // ˈɪər i //UK // (ˈɪərɪ) //

阴森恐怖,阴森,阴森恐怖的,阴森森的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est.

    • : uncanny, so as to inspire superstitious fear; weird an eerie midnight howl.
    • : Chiefly Scot. affected with superstitious fear.

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Examples

  • Faintly we heard the eerie traces of high-pitched whale song, the complicated variation that the males sing, perhaps to warn off other males.

  • Though this groundbreaking work could lead to better treatments for stroke and other brain injuries, it also opened an eerie gray zone between the living and the dead.

  • The next day was beautiful, made eerie by the absence of the activity that usually pervades the first day of school in any city.

  • It’s an odd concept, but in Schweblin’s hands, it works, and the result is an eerie, fascinating meditation on privacy, surveillance, and performance.

  • Yet our first step was taken even earlier, revealed by an eerie homage to the underworld buried within the foothills of Turkey’s Taurus Mountains.

  • Yet the eerie echoing of the earlier faux interview in another major media outlet was unsettling for jazz lovers.

  • Yet there are glimpses of surpassingly eerie dystopian beauty.

  • An examination of the eerie similarities between Litchfield Prison and Agrestic.

  • Plus wearing gowns, gloves, goggles and masks imparts an eerie moonwalk sensation as one enters the facility.

  • The music is eerie and disturbing, and it is easy to imagine how revolutionary it sounded in 1983.

  • Overhead the rocky walls began to close, the light grew dim, ahead came that eerie glow from the magnetic statue.

  • She smiled like one who saw a happy vision, and an eerie expression stole into her face.

  • With another eerie howl the machine soared once more and bobbed completely over the cone to the street which must lie beyond it.

  • The eerie scream that came echoing through the ship seemed to lift up every single strand of hair on Thompson's head.

  • As Barney said, it made him “feel quite solemn-like and eerie to travel through the woods by wather.”