motley

美 [ˈmɑːtli]英 [ˈmɒtli]
  • adj.杂七杂八的;混杂的
  • n.(丑角穿的)杂色衣服;小丑

复数: motleys 最高级: motliest 比较级: motlier

motleymotley

adj.

disapproving混杂的;杂七杂八的
consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together

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。

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。

motley

频次

  • 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.

    ...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

noun

1
a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
2
a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
3
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
a great assortment of cars was on display
he had a variety of disorders
a veritable smorgasbord of religions
Synonym: assortment mixture mixed bag miscellany miscellanea variety salmagundi smorgasbord potpourri

verb

1
make motley;color with different colors
Synonym: parti-color
2
make something more diverse and varied
Vary the menu
Synonym: vary variegate

adj

1
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
a jester dressed in motley
the painted desert
a particolored dress
a piebald horse
pied daisies
Synonym: calico multicolor multi-color multicolour multi-colour multicolored multi-colored multicoloured multi-coloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured
2
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
an arrangement of assorted spring flowers
assorted sizes
miscellaneous accessories
a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music
a motley crew
sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richard
Synonym: assorted miscellaneous mixed sundry(a)

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  1. 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。

  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。

  3. 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。

  4. The volunteers seem a motley crew .

    志愿者里似乎什么人都有。

  5. A motley group of people attended the meeting .

    到会的人很杂。

  6. 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。

  7. I got to know this motley crew quite well .

    我认识摩特利和船员的。

  8. For these five kinds of methods the electricity has not only many but also motley classify ways .

    其中电法类的方法即多又杂,而电磁法又是电法中分类最繁杂的勘探方法。

  9. 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。

  10. The motley company had increased to ten .

    这群乌合之众已经增加到了十个人。

  11. 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。

  12. The people she invited were a pretty motley crew .

    她邀请的人相当混杂。

  13. 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。

  14. His interpretations on history are far less strained than those of Motley .

    他对于历史的解释不象莫特利那样牵强。

  15. " The crowd is a motley one , for it is composed of people of many nationalities "

    广场上的人群很杂,汇聚了世界上的众多民族

  16. Wearing a motley collection of old clothes

    穿着各式各样的旧衣服

  17. 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。

  18. Who moved my mind , motley miss .

    谁动了我的心弦,斑驳了想念。

  19. His friends are rather a motley crew .

    他的朋友都是相当龙蛇杂处的一夥人。

  20. 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。

  21. Thyroid carcinoma appear motley density , the edges were unclear and infiltration of adjacent might be seen .

    恶性甲状腺肿瘤平扫时成等或混杂密度,边界不清,增强扫描强化不均,并向邻近组织侵犯。

  22. 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。

  23. 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。

  24. 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;

  25. 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。

  26. You love your garden , but , unfortunately , a motley assortment of pests feel the same way .

    你非常喜爱你的花园,不幸的是,各种各样的昆虫也是同样的感觉。

  27. The Dong Fang Hotel during the trade fair was a motley collection of people from every corner of the globe .

    广交会期间的东方宾馆汇集了来自世界各个角落的人群。

  28. 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。

  29. The usual motley crowd of tourists , hawkers and pigeons

    一群像往常一样杂乱的游客、小贩、鸽子

  30. Modern society is multifarious , bizarre and motley , strange thing emerges in endlessly , too many things to see making a person .

    现代社会五花八门,光怪陆离,新鲜事物层出不穷,令人目不暇接。