Exotica are things that feel unusual and exciting because they seem to come from far away — spices, bright cloth, strange plants, music that sounds like another country. It is a slightly old-fashioned, magazine kind of word, not the one you use for a plastic souvenir from the airport.

Exotica are things that feel unusual and exciting because they seem to come from far awayExotica 指那些感覺不尋常、令人興奮，因為它們看起來像來自遙遠地方的東西——spices, bright cloth, strange plants, music that sounds like another country香料、鮮豔的布料、奇特的植物、聽起來像異國的音樂。It is a slightly old-fashioned, magazine kind of word這是個有點老派、雜誌風格的詞，not the one you use for a plastic souvenir from the airport不是你會拿來形容機場塑膠紀念品的那種說法。

In the 1950s people even used it for a style of lounge music full of bird calls and fake-island sounds. You almost never point at one object and call it 'an exotica'; the word names a mix, a shelf of foreign-feeling things.

In the 1950s people even used it for a style of lounge music full of bird calls and fake-island sounds在 1950 年代，人們甚至用它來指一種充滿鳥叫聲和假熱帶島嶼音效的休閒音樂風格。You almost never point at one object and call it 'an exotica'你幾乎不會指著單一物品稱它為 'an exotica'；the word names a mix, a shelf of foreign-feeling things這個詞指的是一整批、一整架帶著異國感的東西。

Though actually, what counts as exotic depends on where you stand. A Taiwan night market can feel like exotica to a visitor from Europe, and a French bakery can feel like exotica here.

Though actually, what counts as exotic depends on where you stand不過話說回來，什麼算是異國，其實要看你站在哪個位置。A Taiwan night market can feel like exotica to a visitor from Europe對一個來自歐洲的訪客來說，台灣的夜市可能就是 exotica；and a French bakery can feel like exotica here而在這裡，一間法式麵包店也可能讓人覺得是 exotica。