His ideas were quaint and fantastic. she brought him judiciously to earth . 他的看法荒廖古怪。她颇有见识地劝他面对现实。
He loved mrs. leivers, with her unworldliness and her quaint cynicism . 他爱莱弗斯太太，她超脱世俗，离奇古雅，愤世嫉俗。
On the face of it, life was a mixture of the quaint and the archaic . 从表面上看来，生活是离奇有趣的事物和古老事物的混合体。
It might have been the trees he was addressing on the quaint customs of crystals . 他似乎是对树木作关于晶体的奇妙习性的发言。
They were the quaintest and simplest and trustingest race . 世界上的哪个种族，也没有他们那么古里古怪，那么脑筋简单，那么容易相信别人。
He spoke with solemnity and his colossal misshapen nose made what he said very quaint . 他一本正经地说清，他那丑陋的大鼻子使他说的话显得非常古怪。
More and more was shelton conscious of a quaint uneasiness in the very breathing of the household . 谢尔顿一天比一天体会到这个家庭的呼吸中有种古怪的，不自在的感觉。
It was indeed a quaint notion that under mrs. thatcher the troy party would only appeal to the suburban south-east . 那种认为在撒切尔夫人的领导下，保守党就只能对东南部郊区有号召力的看法真是莫名其妙。
The quaint field noises, the yokels' whistling, and the splash of water-fowl, each seemed to him enchanted . 那种新奇的，田野上的喧声，那种庄稼汉打着的唿哨，那种水禽的溅水声，他觉得每一样都是令人销魂的。
Madeline affected all manner of rich and quaint devices in the garniture of her room, her person, and her feminine belonging . 马德琳在她的房间里，她的身上，以及她的女性用品等的装饰方面，喜爱各种各样奢华、精致的小玩艺儿。
