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单词 mysterious
释义
mysterious
(mɪstɪəriəs )
1. adjective B2
Someone or something that is mysterious is strange and is not known about or understood.
He died in mysterious circumstances.
A mysterious illness confined him to bed for over a month.
The whole thing seems very mysterious.
He began to feel sympathy for this slightly mysterious man.
Synonyms: strange, unknown, puzzling, curious  
mysteriously adverb [usually ADVERB with verb]
A couple of messages had mysteriously disappeared.
2. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If someone is mysterious about something, they deliberately do not talk much about it, sometimes because they want to make people more interested in it.
As for his job–well, he was very mysterious about it. [+ about]
Synonyms: secretive, enigmatic, evasive, discreet  
mysteriously adverb [ADVERB after verb]
Asked what she meant, she said mysteriously: 'Work it out for yourself.'
Quotations:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm
William CowperOlney Hymns
Collocations:
mysterious disease
During the winter of 1835-6, a mysterious disease manifested among patients.
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But news of the mysterious disease prompted the two journalists and one politician to postpone their trip for at least a month.
Globe and Mail
The dreaded and mysterious disease has sapped the city's vital tourism trade.
Globe and Mail
A mysterious disease of the mind, in which people lose consciousness and control, epilepsy has always carried a stigma.
Times, Sunday Times
At first as a result of a lack of information this incident was named the mysterious disease.
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mysterious force
In the seventh episode of the 13-part series, a mysterious force has taken control of the ship, sending it flying straight into a sun.
The Sun
Then, a mysterious force causes everyone to reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings in song.
The Sun
It has brought spectacular images of distant galaxies and planetary gas clouds, and found evidence of dark energy, the mysterious force behind the ongoing expansion of the universe.
Times, Sunday Times
But no mysterious force lies beyond.
Times, Sunday Times
These four areas have enemies in them, and are blocked by mysterious force fields.
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mysterious object
He desperately needed a briefing note to explain this mysterious object.
Times, Sunday Times
The carpenter snapped the mysterious object from his window on a mobile phone.
The Sun
The mysterious object passed wide of the tug, to the stern.
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But then they find a mysterious object buried in the sand and it isn't long before they are caught up in a daring adventure of their own.
The Sun
The mysterious object, waste falls from the sky.
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mysterious past
Despite their neighbourly friendliness and community spirit, each resident harbours a mysterious past.
Times, Sunday Times
Thankfully, an eccentric chap with a mysterious past turns up who might just do the trick.
The Sun
As for romance, new love has a mysterious past.
The Sun
Through the rain, everyone there looks as if they have something to hide - not least the detective, haunted by flashbacks to a mysterious past.
Times, Sunday Times
It soon becomes evident that he has a sinister and mysterious past with another major character.
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mysterious phenomenon
Lately, the boar population has increased, while that of songbirds has declined, a mysterious phenomenon to which over-hunting may have contributed.
The Times Literary Supplement
This was a case of ball lightning, a rare and mysterious phenomenon sometimes seen in intense thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
Finally, in the early 1970s, two ecologists independently came up with the same hypothesis to explain the mysterious phenomenon—at least with trees.
Smithsonian Mag
The title alludes to the mysterious phenomenon of phosphorescence of the sea, and it was amongst the treasures lost in the 1970 fire.
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Nature can produce some peculiar and downright mysterious phenomena.
Times, Sunday Times
mysterious shadow
It contains his first self-portrait, painted when he was 22, in which he stares out at us fiercely from deep within a mysterious shadow.
Times, Sunday Times
There also a mysterious shadow thing being sighted and causing inevitable panic.
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They panic and try to leave, all the while being stalked by a mysterious shadow.
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A wooden walkway guides you into the mysterious shadows of scrubby bits.
Times, Sunday Times
The generous upstairs windows are canopied, creating mysterious shadows, and its cedar exterior has weathered to a silvery glow.
Times, Sunday Times
mysterious stranger
Frightened and disturbed by a terrible dream, she flees to the desert where she meets a mysterious stranger, unknown yet immediately familiar.
Times, Sunday Times
A mysterious stranger rids a town of outlaws, but has a dark plan in store for its inhabitants.
The Sun
His first assignment was to meet a mysterious stranger off a train.
Times, Sunday Times
But with no one else in the house, will she live to regret taking on the mysterious stranger all by herself?
The Sun
The former pop star plays an art-gallery owner who finds romance and excitement with a mysterious stranger.
The Sun
mysterious symbol
Each bottle contained a parchment which had a number 1 or 2 on it, as well as a mysterious symbol.
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She then goes into a seizure, the mysterious symbol forming on her forehead.
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Inheriting furniture and not bothering with plumbing continue to function as mysterious symbols of status.
Times, Sunday Times
The act of translating what for me are the mysterious symbols of communication into actual comprehension has always been a hardship.
Times, Sunday Times
Some say that its 45 mysterious symbols are the words of a 4,000-year-old poem, or perhaps a sacred text.
Times, Sunday Times
mysterious visitor
A mysterious visitor to the workplace has lots of love potential.
The Sun
As raiders increase their activity near the station, a mysterious visitor arrives with an enigmatic question for some of the alien ambassadors.
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Tracking down the haunting noises to their source, you find groups of the mysterious visitors enacting strange and uncheery rituals in the concrete niches surrounding the underground pit.
Times, Sunday Times
Then mysterious visitors arrive in a helicopter.
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Translations:
Chinese: 神秘的
Japanese: 謎めいた
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