['mɔtli]
motley
a. 杂色的l斑杂的,杂多的,混杂的
n. 杂色,杂色衣服,混杂

词形变化:

名词复数:motleys

例句与用法:

  1. The people she'd invited were a pretty motley crew.
    她请的人相当杂.
  2. They were a motley crew.
    这帮人成份混杂。
  3. They are wearing a motley collection of old clothes.
    他们穿着各式各样的旧衣服。

英英解释:

名词 motley:

  1. a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
  2. 同义词:assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri
  3. a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
  4. a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England

动词 motley:

  1. make something more diverse and varied
  2. 同义词:vary, variegate
  3. make motley; color with different colors
  4. 同义词:parti-color

形容词 motley:

  1. consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity)- I.A.Richards
  2. 同义词:assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, sundry
  3. having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
  4. 同义词:calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi-colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured