motley

/'mɒtli/ uk　 词频 #16138

英语专业八级

motley 是什么意思

中文释义

a. 杂色的, 穿杂色衣的, 杂乱的, 混杂的

n. 杂色, 杂色衣服, 混杂, 小丑

英文释义

n. a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)

n. a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England

v. make motley; color with different colors

s. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

motley 的真实例句

以下例句摘自真实英文文章，看看 motley 在自然语境里怎么用：

The author calls them a “motley crew”, and that is what they are.

—— Two excellent new sci-fi novels tackle robots in very different ways

Between 1928 and 1934, while Hitler plotted and Europe crumbled, a motley crew of mathematicians, philosophers, architects, and economists gathered weekly to puzzle out the limits of reason—and invented Computer Science in the process.

—— Design Dialects: Breaking the Rules, Not the System

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