1ENTHUSIASTIC informal someone who is extremely interested in a particular subject so that other people think they are strange or unusual 狂热爱好者
a fitness freak
健身迷
a religious freak
宗教狂热分子
a computer freak
计算机迷
2NORMALsomeone who is considered to be very strange because of the way they look, behave, or think 怪异的人SYN weirdo
These glasses make me look like a freak.
我戴这副眼镜看上去像个怪人。
Women who studied engineering used to be considered freaks.
学工程的女性过去常被视为怪物。
3.a control freakMPsomeone who always wants to controlsituations and other people 控制欲强的人
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a control freak• Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want from you.• Am I a control freak just because I want a little order in my life?
4HB (also freak of nature)UNUSUAL something in nature that is very unusual 畸形;不寻常的事物
By some freak of fate, he walked away from the crash completely unhurt.
在命运的奇特安排下,他在车祸中毫发无损。
April’s sales figures were a freak.
4月份的销售额一反常态。
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freak• If people can't put you into a category, they tend to just think of you as a freak.• Jeez, they didn't have to put her in with a freak.• And Magruder really was a card-carryingbicyclefreak who had even ridden his 10-speed to the White House every day.• The combinefreakspop up every year.• Her husband's a control freak - he won't let her leave the house without him.• Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want and need from you.• Rawvegetables and nuts have always been a favourite with health-food freaks.• A brawler this is, an alleyfighter, a hopped-upoffensive gone freak.• There were no obviousfreaks, transvestites, monsters or exoticcreatures.• One Beatle's freak is reported to have paid $18,000 for Paul McCartney's birthcertificate.• By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber.• The guy is probably just some freak who saw her on TV and decided he loves her.• What was I doing consorting with these freaks?
fitness freak• Arkwright Myers, a fifty-year-old fitness freak, introduces himself as the owner.
freak• Call it a freakaccident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.• In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.• Two planes were lifted up and thrown across the tarmac by a freakgust of wind.• Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freakmovements.• Another bicycle, another freakpumpkin, this one weighing perhaps more than Lois.• We maintain more freakreligions and cults than all the rest of the world combined.• A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.• It turns the symphony into a freak show.• He broke his leg in a freak training accident.• A freakwavewrecked most of the seafront.
freak result• It had been a good shot, an honest shot with a freak result.• A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.
freak3 verb [intransitiveI] informal
1ANGRYFRIGHTENEDto become suddenly angry or afraid, especially so that you cannot control your behaviour 突然发怒[害怕]SYN flip
When Ben heard about the accident, he just freaked.
本一听说出事便大惊失色。
2freak outphrasal verbphr v informalUPSETto become very anxious, upset, or afraid, or make someone very anxious, upset, or afraid (使)产生强烈反应;(使)心烦意乱;(使)吓得要死
People just freaked out when they heard the news.
听到这个消息,民众反应激烈。
freak somebody out
The whole idea freaked me out.
整个想法把我吓得半死。
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freak• This is seriousshit, and it's no wonder some people are freaking out and saying reading will be it.• In movies you can stop the shooting for 10 minutes and not have everyone freak out.• They'd freak totally, if their boss went around in jeans.
Originfreak1
(1500-1600) Perhaps from Old Englishfrician“to dance”
1 (informal) person with a very strong interest in sth迷戀者ADJECTIVE | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤computer, fitness, health, speed電腦迷;健身狂;養生迷;速度狂◇For the real speed freak, there is a fuel-injection version of the car.對於那些玩命追求極速的車迷來說,現有一種燃油噴射的車型。➤control控制狂◇Her dad is a total control freak.她爸爸是個不折不扣的控制狂。➤neat (NAmE) 有潔癖的人◇I'm such a neat freak that I clean up after other people.我是個有潔癖的人,其他人一走我就要徹底打掃。PHRASES➤a bit of a freak有點兒痴迷freak
noun²
2strange/unusual event不尋常的事PREPOSITION | PHRASESPREPOSITION➤freak of⋯的怪事◇This was no more than a freak of history.這只不過是歷史上的一件怪事罷了。PHRASES➤a freak of nature畸形的人/動植物freak
noun³
3sb who is considered to be strange怪人ADJECTIVE | VERB + FREAK | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤total十足的怪人▸➤sick (especially NAmE) 極為變態的人◇What kind of sick freak is this guy?這傢伙是個什麼樣的變態之人?VERB + FREAK➤feel like覺得像個怪物▸➤regard sb as, see sb as把某人當成/看成怪物◇Other students regarded him as a freak.其他學生把他當成怪物。PHRASES➤a bit of a freak有點兒像個怪物◇I felt like a bit of a freak in my strange clothes.穿着奇裝異服,我覺得自己有點兒像個怪物。