喜樂美語
  1. 1/ˈnɑːvəlti/ · /ˈnɒvəlti/新奇（感）；新奇小物（如：趣味小商品）

    A novelty is something new and unusual that catches people's interest for a while, partly just because it's new. As an idea rather than a thing, "novelty" is the quality of being new and interesting — "the novelty wore off" means something that was at first became normal and boring once people got used to it. "Novelty" can also describe cheap, fun items made mainly to be funny or unusual rather than useful — a "novelty T-shirt" or "novelty mug."

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei loved her new bike at first, but the novelty soon wore off.

    逐字美起初很喜歡她的新腳踏車，但是那新鮮感很快就磨掉了。

    常見搭配

    • the novelty wears off

      新鮮感退了

      something stops being interesting once it is no longer new

      After the novelty wears off, most of these gadgets sit in a drawer.

    • novelty value

      新鮮感帶來的價值

      the appeal something has only because it is new

      The restaurant's robot waiter has novelty value, but the food matters more.

    • the novelty of (doing) something

      某件事的新鮮感

      the fresh, interesting feeling of a new experience

      She was enjoying the novelty of cooking for herself.

    意思相近

    freshnessnewnessoriginality

    意思相反

    familiarityroutinestaleness

core核心畫面

同家族的字

  • novelsame root — new, unfamiliar

複數 novelties

意思相近

freshnessnewnessoriginality

意思相反

familiarityroutinestaleness

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Noveltyname

  • 1

    A village in Missouri.

noveltynoun/ˈnɑvəlti/

  • 1

    The state of being new or novel; newness.

    • It was by no means pleasant to realize that there was an unknown number of menaces up there over your head, quietly circling and circling until someone should arrange for them to drop - and that there was nothing to be done about them. Still, life has to go on - and novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing. One became used to the idea perforce.
    • Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
  • 2

    A new product; an innovation.

    • Reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty.
  • 3

    A small mass-produced trinket.

    • One released image shows Trump with six women with leis whose faces were redacted by committee members, while another depicts what appears to be a bowl of novelty condoms with a caricature of Trump’s face with the text, “I’m HUUUUGE!” The condoms – shown in a bowl with a “Trump condom $4.50” sign – were produced by a novelty shop in New York City named Fishs Eddy.
  • 4

    In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.

  • 5

    board-gameschessgamesAn opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).

    • Topalov has unveiled some interesting novelties lately, but there was nothing unusual in his opening here. Sasikiran played the Nimzo-Indian, and Topalov replied with probably the most classical continuation.
    • It's not often a novelty comes as early as move seven nowadays, but in the latest round of the German Bundesliga, a recently discovered seventh move was employed to win a lovely game.

noveltyadj/ˈnɑvəlti/

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    In the design of a common household item, often impractically large, and meant primarily for display rather than functional use.

    • My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.
    • The fundraisers presented us with an oversize novelty cheque.

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