motley

英 [ˈmɒtli] 美 [ˈmɑːtli]

adj.  混杂的; 杂七杂八的
n.  (丑角穿的)杂色衣服; 小丑

过去分词:motleyed

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牛津词典

adj.

  1. 混杂的;杂七杂八的
    consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together
    1. The room was filled with a motley collection of furniture and paintings.
      屋子里摆满了五花八门的家具和绘画。
    2. The audience was a motley crew of students and tourists.
      观众是一群混杂在一起的学生和游客。

柯林斯词典

  1. ADJ-GRADED 杂七杂八的;混杂的
    You can describe a group of things as a motley collection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different.
    1. ...a motley collection of vans, old buses, cattle-trucks, and even a fire engine...
      杂七杂八的一堆车,有运货车、旧公共汽车、运牛车,甚至救火车
    2. The volunteers seem a motley crew.
      志愿者里似乎什么人都有。

双语例句

  1. The volunteers seem a motley crew.
    志愿者里似乎什么人都有。
  2. A motley group of people attended the meeting.
    到会的人很杂。
  3. Motley makes his villains excessively villainous and his heroes wearisomely heroic.
    莫特利把坏人写得过于无赖,把他的英雄写得过于英勇。
  4. Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this troop.
    没有什么比这种队伍更奇特和光怪陆离的了。
  5. Motley, FOR his part, makes his villains excessively villainous and his heros wearisomely heroic.
    讲到莫特利,他把他的坏人讲得过于无赖,把他的英雄写得过于英勇,看了使人厌倦。
  6. The motley company had increased to ten.
    这群乌合之众已经增加到了十个人。
  7. A motley collection of junk My car was a worthless wreck.
    我的车子成了一堆无用的废物。
  8. I got to know this motley crew quite well.
    我认识摩特利和船员的。
  9. A strange and motley set they were, these friends of the Chevalier.
    骑士的这班朋友真是五花八门,无奇不有。
  10. There's a motley collection of old furniture in the house we're renting at the moment.
    我们现在租的房子里有一批混杂的旧家具。
  11. A motley assortment of things.
    各种各样混杂的事物。
  12. He cuts the blowing, yellow buildings in two, breaks the walls into motley halves;
    他把鼓风的黄色建筑一分为二地切开,把墙壁一半一半地折断成五颜六色;
  13. When did Motley Crue become classic rock?
    什么时候杂种乐队也变成了经典摇滚?
  14. The FARSCAPE crew is a motley band of renegades.
    FARSCAPE全体人员是一根叛徒的杂色的带子。
  15. The people she invited were a pretty motley crew.
    她邀请的人相当混杂。
  16. Haldon donned a hooded cloak, and Tyrion shed his homemade motley for something drab and grey.
    哈尔顿披上一件连帽斗篷,提利昂则脱下他的自制花衫换上单调灰暗的衣物。
  17. And now, for the first time in her life, she was facing a complex nature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being.
    如今,她生气第一次碰上了一个性格复杂的人。那时我还没认识到一个人的性格是极其复杂的。
  18. Who moved my mind, motley miss.
    谁动了我的心弦,斑驳了想念。
  19. Lady Gaga is Dorothy, a simple girl with a dream surrounded by a motley crew of friends and supporters, struggling to make it to the Wonderful Land of Oz.
    夫人加加是多萝西,一个由朋友和支持者杂牌军包围的梦想简单的女孩,努力使这对奥兹神奇的土地。
  20. His friends are rather a motley crew.
    他的朋友都是相当龙蛇杂处的一夥人。
  21. Intel and Microsoft are Motley Fool Inside Value recommendations.
    英特尔和微软是莫特利内价值的建议傻瓜。
  22. A motley crew they are, their doings as dark as they are ludicrous ( John Simon)
    他们是一群行踪诡秘,为人荒唐可笑的乌合之众(约翰西蒙)
  23. At Eastwatch someone had sewn him a motley cloak of beaver pelts, sheepskins, and rabbit fur.
    在东海望有人用海狸皮,绵羊皮,和野兔皮给他缝了一间杂色花衣。
  24. Motley crowds and jumbled huts of old Tienstin-view soon after the city was occupied-China.
    混杂的人群和天津市乱七八糟的小房子,在天津被占领后向南门里看。
  25. Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a motley cast of characters.
    于是哈克和吉姆一同开始历险的征程,并遇到了许多不同个性的人们。
  26. The lights changed to green, and the car moved forward in a motley sea of traffic and humanity.
    此时指挥交通的灯光换了绿色,吴老太爷的车子便又向前进。
  27. We were a motley group loosely held together by some common threads.
    我们是一个松散的五花八门组举行一些共同的线索在一起。
  28. With Tirol before it, the motley battlewagon went on combat alert.
    这艘混杂战舰正朝泰洛驶来,进入了战斗警戒状态。
  29. And let's have a quick look at our company's motley lineup of worker bees and their hardware.
    接下来,让我们快速地查看一下公司里忙碌地工蜂们及他们的硬件。
  30. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being.
    那时我还没认识到一个人的性格是极其复杂的。