1ENTHUSIASTIC informal someone who is extremely interested in a particular subject so that other people think they are strange or unusual 狂熱愛好者
a fitness freak
健身迷
a religious freak
宗教狂熱分子
a computer freak
計算機迷
2NORMALsomeone who is considered to be very strange because of the way they look, behave, or think 怪異的人SYN weirdo
These glasses make me look like a freak.
我戴這副眼鏡看上去像個怪人。
Women who studied engineering used to be considered freaks.
學工程的女性過去常被視爲怪物。
3.a control freakMPsomeone who always wants to controlsituations and other people 控制欲強的人
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a control freak• Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want from you.• Am I a control freak just because I want a little order in my life?
4HB (also freak of nature)UNUSUAL something in nature that is very unusual 畸形;不尋常的事物
By some freak of fate, he walked away from the crash completely unhurt.
在命運的奇特安排下,他在車禍中毫發無損。
April’s sales figures were a freak.
4月份的銷售額一反常態。
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freak• If people can't put you into a category, they tend to just think of you as a freak.• Jeez, they didn't have to put her in with a freak.• And Magruder really was a card-carryingbicyclefreak who had even ridden his 10-speed to the White House every day.• The combinefreakspop up every year.• Her husband's a control freak - he won't let her leave the house without him.• Some bosses are control freaks, while others are too unclear about what they want and need from you.• Rawvegetables and nuts have always been a favourite with health-food freaks.• A brawler this is, an alleyfighter, a hopped-upoffensive gone freak.• There were no obviousfreaks, transvestites, monsters or exoticcreatures.• One Beatle's freak is reported to have paid $18,000 for Paul McCartney's birthcertificate.• By some freak of the acoustics his name seemed to echo round and round the chamber.• The guy is probably just some freak who saw her on TV and decided he loves her.• What was I doing consorting with these freaks?
fitness freak• Arkwright Myers, a fifty-year-old fitness freak, introduces himself as the owner.
freak• Call it a freakaccident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.• In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.• Two planes were lifted up and thrown across the tarmac by a freakgust of wind.• Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freakmovements.• Another bicycle, another freakpumpkin, this one weighing perhaps more than Lois.• We maintain more freakreligions and cults than all the rest of the world combined.• A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.• It turns the symphony into a freak show.• He broke his leg in a freak training accident.• A freakwavewrecked most of the seafront.
freak result• It had been a good shot, an honest shot with a freak result.• A freak result - nerves - you must have written gibberish.
freak3 verb [intransitiveI] informal
1ANGRYFRIGHTENEDto become suddenly angry or afraid, especially so that you cannot control your behaviour 突然發怒[害怕]SYN flip
When Ben heard about the accident, he just freaked.
本一聽說出事便大驚失色。
2freak outphrasal verbphr v informalUPSETto become very anxious, upset, or afraid, or make someone very anxious, upset, or afraid (使)産生強烈反應;(使)心煩意亂;(使)嚇得要死
People just freaked out when they heard the news.
聽到這個消息,民衆反應激烈。
freak somebody out
The whole idea freaked me out.
整個想法把我嚇得半死。
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freak• This is seriousshit, and it's no wonder some people are freaking out and saying reading will be it.• In movies you can stop the shooting for 10 minutes and not have everyone freak out.• They'd freak totally, if their boss went around in jeans.
Originfreak1
(1500-1600) Perhaps from Old Englishfrician“to dance”