You can hold strange as something that doesn't fit the world you know: it sits outside your map — unusual, unfamiliar, or just slightly 'off' — so your mind stops and goes 'that's not how it usually is.' Whether it's a weird event, a face you've never met, or a wrong feeling in your body, the thread is the same: this doesn't match what's normal to you.
From the word’s history
Strange goes back through Old French 'estrange' to Latin 'extraneus', meaning 'outside, external, not belonging to the household' — the same root that gives us 'extraneous' and 'stranger'. That 'from outside / not one of ours' sense is exactly the picture under all the modern meanings.
strange 可以經由古法語 estrange 一路追到拉丁語 extraneus,意思是「在外面的、外來的、不屬於這個家的」——這也是 extraneous（外來的）和 stranger（陌生人）的同一個字根。那種「從外面來、不是我們這邊的」的感覺，正好就是底下所有現代意思共同的核心畫面。
Online Etymology Dictionary, 'strange' — from Old French estrange, from Latin extraneus 'external, foreign'. https://www.etymonline.com/word/strange
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Strangename
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A surname.
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A community in King township, Ontario, Canada, named after Frederick William Strange.
strangeadj/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
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Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
- He thought it strange that his girlfriend wore shorts in the winter.
- I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?
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Unfamiliar, not yet part of one's experience.
- I moved to a strange town when I was ten.
- […] here is the hand and seal of the duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
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slangOutside of one's current relationship; unfamiliar.
- When AIDS and Herpes hit the street Talib stopped fucking with strange pussy and stray pussy. Bitches had a ways to go to match Malikah in bed anyway. With her there was that extra element of real love that heightened sex […]
- Arnett might have come to Boston to eat baked beans, get some strange ass, or stick up the First New England Trust, the motive mattered little to him—whatever the boss wanted to do was jake-okay by him. Besides, being on overtime for ...
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsHaving the quantum mechanical property of strangeness.
- A strange quark is electrically charged, carrying an amount -1/3, as does the down quark.
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mathematicssciencesOf an attractor: having a fractal structure.
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obsoleteBelonging to another country; foreign.
- I take goyng thither [to Italy], and liuing there, for a yonge ientleman, that doth not goe vnder the kepe and garde of such a man, as both, by wisedome can, and authoritie dare rewle him, to be meruelous dangerous […] not bicause I do contemne, either the knowledge of strange and diuerse tonges, and namelie the Italian tonge […] or else bicause I do despise, the learning that is gotten […]
- […] one of the strange queen’s lords.
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obsoleteReserved; distant in deportment.
- Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? / You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
- She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!
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obsoleteBackward; slow.
- That to his name your barrenneſſe adds rule; / VVho louing the effect, vvould not be ſtrange / In fauoring the cause; looke on the profit, / And gaine vvill quickly point the miſchiefe out.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteNot familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.
- I know thee well; / But in thy fortunes am unlearn’d and strange.
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lawNot belonging to one.
strangeverb/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
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obsoleteTo alienate; to estrange.
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obsoleteTo be estranged or alienated.
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obsoleteTo wonder; to be astonished at (something).
- [I]f the world and motion were not from Eternity, then God was Idle; were all the Aſſertions of Ariſtotle, which Theology pronounceth impieties. Which yet we need not ſtrange at from one, of whom a Father ſaith, Nec Deum coluit nec curavit [he neither worshipped nor cared for God]: […]
strangenoun/stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/
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slangSex outside of one's current relationship.
- It was a bar by license, but in hiring practice it became an intergalactic smorgasbord of xenosexual delights, females of fancy species serving drinks and offering cultural exchange to human males seeking some strange.
- All he has to do is walk into a bar, and he can get some Strange.'” “Oh yeah, Tom,” I mutter, “that's exactly how it was, every Saturday night. Nothing but Strange. Up here too.”
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natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsA strange quark.
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