motley

英 [ˈmɒtli]

美 [ˈmɑːtli]

adj.  混杂的; 杂七杂八的
n.  （丑角穿的）杂色衣服; 小丑

过去分词：motleyed　

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Collins.1 / BNC.18743 / COCA.16138

牛津词典

adj.

• 混杂的；杂七杂八的
  consisting of many different types of people or things that do not seem to belong together
  1. 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。
  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。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 杂七杂八的;混杂的
  You can describe a group of things as amotleycollection if you think they seem strange together because they are all very different.
  1. ...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
  2. The volunteers seem a motley crew.
     志愿者里似乎什么人都有。

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• The motley company had increased to ten.
  这群乌合之众已经增加到了十个人。
• Lady Gaga is Dorothy, a simple girl with a dream surrounded by a motley crew of friends and supporters, struggling to make it to the Wonderful Land of Oz.
  夫人加加是多萝西，一个由朋友和支持者杂牌军包围的梦想简单的女孩，努力使这对奥兹神奇的土地。
• 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。
• His friends are rather a motley crew.
  他的朋友都是相当龙蛇杂处的一夥人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Motley, FOR his part, makes his villains excessively villainous and his heros wearisomely heroic.
  讲到莫特利，他把他的坏人讲得过于无赖，把他的英雄写得过于英勇，看了使人厌倦。
• A motley group of people attended the meeting.
  到会的人很杂。