newfangled

英 [ˌnjuːˈfæŋɡld]

美 [ˌnuːˈfæŋɡld]

adj.  新奇怪异的; 时髦复杂的

过去式：newfangled　

BNC.44454 / COCA.22899

牛津词典

adj.

• 新奇怪异的；时髦复杂的
  used to describe sth that has recently been invented or introduced, but that you do not like because it is not what you are used to, or is too complicated

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (新想法或新设备)太复杂的，不必要的，时髦复杂的
  If someone describes a new idea or a new piece of equipment asnew-fangled, they mean that it is too complicated or is unnecessary.
  1. Mr Goss does not believe in any of this 'new-fangled nonsense' about lean meat.
     戈斯先生一点儿都不相信有关瘦肉的这种“奇谈怪论”。
  2. ...a newfangled tax structure.
     过于复杂的税收结构

英英释义

adj

• (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new
  1. newfangled ideas
  2. she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them
  Synonym:new

双语例句

• I really dou't understand these newfangled computer games that my children are always playing.
  我真弄不懂我的孩子们总在玩的新式电脑游戏。
• Using your newfangled administrator's menu bar, choose User Management>Roles.
  使用您新创建的管理员菜单栏，选择UserManagement>Roles。
• But if what you want is a real firehose of visitors, no newfangled social network can compete with the Drudge Report.
  但要比比谁是网络流量最大的驱动力，没有任何一家新兴的社交媒体可以比得过德拉吉报道（DrudgeReport）网站。
• The book ends with an assurance that far from newfangled and faddish, frugal innovation is a return to the principles of the industrial revolution.
  这本书以一项拒绝新奇和时髦的保证结尾：节约式创新是向工业革命原则的回归。
• Still daunted by the thought of reprogramming your VCR, let alone your newfangled DVD?
  还在想着要给你的录像机（更不用说最新流行的dvd）重新编制程序吗？
• We need better teachers, not newfangled ideas of education!
  我们需要更好的教师，而不是新花样的教育思想！
• At the same time, in literature and in other arts, a newfangled modernism celebrated formal, structural qualities, inner coherence and self-reference.
  与此同时，在文学和其他艺术领域，出现了一种崭新的现代主义，它崇尚形式和结构的特质，追求内部的一致性和自我指涉。
• Interested in 37 newfangled apps that will save you 0.01 percent on travel for the coming year?
  在新的一年里，有37个新奇的app能给你省0.01%的旅费。你有兴趣吗？
• They have not been updated since 1996 and do not include such newfangled inventions as video game consoles and GPS devices.
  相关规则自1996年以来就没有更新过，也没有覆盖视频游戏机、GPS设备之类的创新产品。
• Yet advertisers still treat it as a newfangled invention yet to prove its worth.
  但广告商们仍将智能手机看成是一种价值有待证明的新鲜发明。