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freak

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Related topics: Biology
freak1 /friːk/ ●○○ noun [countableC]  
1  ENTHUSIASTIC 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
2  NORMALsomeone 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 freak MPsomeone who always wants to control situations and other people 控制欲强的人
Examples from the Corpus
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?
4  HB (also freak of nature)UNUSUAL something in nature that is very unusual 畸形；不寻常的事物
 Due to some freak of nature, it snowed in June.
天生异象，6月里下起了雪。
5  an unexpected and very unusual event 怪异的事，不寻常的事
 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-carrying bicycle freak who had even ridden his 10-speed to the White House every day.• The combine freaks pop 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.• Raw vegetables and nuts have always been a favourite with health-food freaks.• A brawler this is, an alley fighter, a hopped-up offensive gone freak.• There were no obvious freaks, transvestites, monsters or exotic creatures.• One Beatle's freak is reported to have paid $18,000 for Paul McCartney's birth certificate.• 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.
Related topics: Nature
freak2 ●○○ adjectiveadj [only before noun]  
1 DNUNUSUALunexpected and very unusual 反常的，怪异的
 a freak result
反常的结果
 He was crushed to death in a freak accident.
他在一场离奇的事故中被压死了。
freak wind/wave/storm etc
 The men drowned when a freak wave sank their boat.
突如其来的海浪打沉了那些人的船，他们都淹死了。
► see thesaurus at unusual
Examples from the Corpus
freak• Call it a freak accident 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 freak gust of wind.• Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements.• Another bicycle, another freak pumpkin, this one weighing perhaps more than Lois.• We maintain more freak religions 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 freak wave wrecked 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  
1 ANGRYFRIGHTENEDto 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。
2 freak out phrasal verbphr v informal UPSETto 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。
Examples from the Corpus
freak• This is serious shit, 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.
Origin freak1
(1500-1600) Perhaps from Old English frician “to dance”
freak1 nounfreak2 adjectiveadjfreak3 verb
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