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preternaturalness

/pree-ter-nach-er-uhl, -nach-ruhl/US // ˌpri tərˈnætʃ ər əl, -ˈnætʃ rəl //UK // (ˌpriːtəˈnætʃrəl) //

特异功能,超自然,永恒性,特殊性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
    • : outside of nature; supernatural.

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Examples

  • Both runners have repeatedly displayed a preternatural ability to close on this course, saving a final burst of energy so that they can be a half-yard ahead of their competition just as they cross the line.

  • He presided over the preternatural creation of 30 million new jobs—and the sharpest rise in median incomes in a generation.

  • There is an automatism to him, a preternatural talent for responding exactly, and briskly, with what is expected.

  • Schwarzenegger is adept at disguising his true feelings beneath a mask of preternatural calm, but he was suddenly doubly alert.

  • He said he had heard about my wonderful “flying-spears,” and declined to fight me if I used such preternatural weapons.

  • Such were the truths which Mohammed, with preternatural earnestness, now declared,--doctrines which would revolutionize Arabia.

  • A preternatural dread of water rages among all the inhabitants of Rome, from the untitled down to the titled.

  • The vengeance of Baldassare is almost preternatural; it surpasses the wrath of Achilles and the malignity of Shylock.

  • By a preternatural light in the chamber he observed distinctly everything around him.