uncanny

adjective
🔊/ʌnˈkæni/
🔊/ʌnˈkæni/
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  1. strange and difficult to explain异常的;难以解释的 synonym weird
    • I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched.我有种被人监视的奇怪感觉。🔊🔊
    • It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking.真是不可思议,她好像知道我在想什么似的。🔊🔊
    • He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies.他有一种不可思议的本领,能够立即发现问题所在。
    • She bore a quite uncanny resemblance to my Auntie Elsie.她与我的爱西姨妈有着极为不可思议的相似之处。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryUncanny is used with these nouns:
    • ability
    • accuracy
    • knack
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    Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un- ‘not’ + canny.