peculiarly

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pe·cu·li·ar·ly /pɪˈkjuːliəli $ -ər-/ adverbadv

1 peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc ONLYsomething that is peculiarly British etc is a typical feature only of British people etc 英国人/女性/中产阶级等特有的

a peculiarly American idea

美国人特有的想法

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peculiarly British/female/middle-class etc• Cellulite is a peculiarly female problem in which the hormone oestrogen plays a part.

2 STRANGEin a strange or unusual way 奇怪地，古怪地

Theo had been behaving peculiarly.

西奥的举止一直很古怪。

3 ESPECIALLYespecially 特别；尤其（是）

a peculiarly difficult question

特别棘手的问题

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peculiarly• John and Sylvia looked at me peculiarly.• He realised then that cells in cancers are peculiarly flexible.• Paul Fussell has developed the interesting point that the first world war was a peculiarly literary war.• In general, the classical perspective contained a peculiarly narrow view of what it actually is that controls human behaviour.• In a way this first category is a peculiarly Protestant doubt which is best understood as a misrepresentation and abuse of freedom.• Certainly the subject, sought from within a particular conscious episode, is peculiarly recessive.• There is something peculiarly ruthless about this process.• The only thing to keep this system from Editor's Choice, is its peculiarly strangled performance.• The comparative weight of the evidence is, however, peculiarly the function of the trial judge who has heard the witnesses.

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