STRANGE

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strange adjectiv

1. străin; necunoscut, neştiut;

this handwriting is strange to me scrisul acesta mi-e necunoscut.

2. straniu, bizar, curios, ciudat, neobişnuit; uimitor, de mirare;

strange to say (lucru) curios, ciudat, oricât ar părea de curios / ciudat.

3. nefamiliarizat, nedeprins, neînvăţat; nou; nefamiliar, neobişnuit, necunoscut;

to feel strange in company a se simţi stânjenit în societate;

he is strange to the job e străin de această meserie, e nou în meserie, nu e obişnuit cu această treabă;

I feel strange nu mi-e bine; îmi vine nu ştiu cum.

4. (înv.) străin, venetic, din altă ţară;

in strange lands în ţări / pe meleaguri străine.

"That is very strange," said Dorothy, "but we must try, in some way, to see him, or we shall have made our journey for nothing."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not—and to know not is to care not for.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Strange how the brain controls the brain!

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This made it so particularly strange!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He told the whole; and she had only to add, “So strange! for Mrs. Grant never used to ask her.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

There was nothing strange about it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

We noticed something strange about him at once.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“This glass has seen some strange things, sir,” whispered Poole.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The youth was sent into a strange town, and remained a whole year with the master.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Agatha asked a question, to which the stranger only replied by pronouncing, in a sweet accent, the name of Felix.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)