光怪陆离 meaning in English
lustrous and dazzling; a wonderful view; fantasy in abundance; grotesque and diversified; grotesque in shape and gaudy in colour; strange and unusual
Examples
- He had such a fanciful, pictorial way of saying things .
他有一种隐晦曲折、光怪陆离的表达方式。 - It was imaginative waistcoat with exceedingly fanciful glass buttons .
花哨的坎肩上配搭着一些光怪陆离的玻璃钮扣。 - Those whom nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque .
本来只可以说有一点奇异的东西，现在都变得光怪陆离。 - He was robed in a wonderful dressing gown, and puffing his pipe in gloomy silence .
他穿着光怪陆离的晨衣，闷闷不乐地吸着烟斗。 - This stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dream-like strangeness of her bridal life .
这架庞大的残骸，使她的新婚生活更变得象梦一般光怪陆离。