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单词 exceptional
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Definition of exceptional in English:

exceptional

adjective ɪkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)lɛkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Unusual; not typical.

    罕见的;不寻常的;例外的

    late claims will only be accepted in exceptional circumstances
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This irrational checklist has nothing to do with pasta or pizzas, or indeed with the food at all - except in exceptional circumstances.
    • We will publish manuscripts over 30,000 words only under exceptional circumstances.
    • Bidding on rare and unusual items in exceptional condition was very aggressive, pushing prices to new highs.
    • No more than three or four awards of this nature are made in the course of a year and only in exceptional circumstances to people outside Spain.
    • There is currently some 30,000 farmers receiving exceptional circumstances drought relief.
    • ‘Although this may be increased in very exceptional circumstances,’ said Debbie.
    • ‘They are pretty exceptional circumstances,’ he said, trying to keep his anger hidden.
    • Applications for damage to cars or non-essential items will not normally be considered, other than in exceptional circumstances.
    • He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren.
    • Independent appeal panels are also to be advised that such decisions should only be overturned under exceptional circumstances.
    • My old laptop was retired because of a really weird problem, which was that the computer would only start in exceptional circumstances.
    • It can only be displaced by unusual or exceptional circumstances.
    • There are rare and exceptional circumstances in existence in this case.
    • Again, there is no suggestion here that paying more than would be justified on a strict royalty calculation is an unusual or exceptional practice.
    • The Human Rights Act is, I believe, open to re-negotiation in certain exceptional circumstances.
    • The judge awarded costs because of the exceptional circumstances.
    • They only come before councillors in exceptional circumstances and the criteria for rejecting them are narrower than in other planning matters.
    • While superficially complex, this was not an exceptional case.
    • This is certainly a very unique case, a very exceptional set of circumstances.
    • In exceptional circumstances, proposals or amendments could be introduced after the circulation of the agenda.
    Synonyms
    unusual, uncommon, abnormal, atypical, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the way, rare, singular, unprecedented, unexpected, surprising
    strange, odd, queer, bizarre, freakish, anomalous, peculiar, inconsistent, deviant, divergent, aberrant, unheard of
    British out of the common
    informal weird, way out, freaky, something else
    dated seldom
    rare unexampled
    1. 1.1 Unusually good; outstanding.
      优越的;杰出的
      a child of exceptional ability
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Writers are liked or disliked for something much vaster than their exceptional ability with language.
      • And Kaushik, who had an exceptional ability in identifying the cars manufactured worldwide.
      • McDaniel has functional speed but exceptional instincts and playmaking ability.
      • She also had the exceptional ability to recall vividly small incidents in her life, and recount them without any exaggeration.
      • Reed has been fielding some punts in practice, and he is an exceptional athlete with big-play ability.
      • The Dolby Digital 5.1 also sounds exceptional, with outstanding separation in the mix.
      • The style of government directed by Henry II and his sons was exceptional for its penetrative ability and aggressive quality.
      • Lincoln appears to have been a man who loved to laugh and used his exceptional story telling ability to his advantage.
      • Ted was a remarkable and exceptional man, who just happened to also live for 106 years.
      • It is the combination of exceptional memory and calculating ability which seems to combine in many of those we consider.
      • The Savage bolt action has always provided outstanding accuracy and exceptional value for the money.
      • Some autistic children show, at an unusually early age, exceptional abilities in music, graphic art or arithmetic.
      • Bernard's exceptional rugby ability has not gone unnoticed and he has recently been invited to play rugby with Leinster.
      • So far, so good, as most of the items on the menu are of reasonable price, significant size and exceptional flavor.
      • His two points were superb efforts and his overall display marked him out as a player of exceptional ability.
      • Hawkins doesn't have exceptional coverage ability but is aggressive and physical.
      • If you have not tried pecorino cheese, give it a chance, it is has kind of a salty exceptional taste full of flavor more so than Parmesan.
      • This is a sure bet because carbon has an exceptional ability to link up with other atoms into long chains, or polymers.
      • Williams has exceptional hands and leaping ability and can beat linebackers deep with his speed.
      • The breed is also noted for its endurance ability, and its exceptional disposition.
      Synonyms
      outstanding, extraordinary, remarkable, unusually good, special, especial, excellent, phenomenal, prodigious
      unequalled, unparalleled, unrivalled, unsurpassed, unsurpassable, unexcelled, peerless, matchless, second to none, in a league of their own, first-rate, first-class, of the first order, of the first water
      informal A1, top-notch, tip-top, stellar
nounɪkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)lɛkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)l
usually exceptionals
  • An item in a company's accounts arising from its normal activity but much larger or smaller than usual.

    (公司账目上的)异常项目。比较 EXTRAORDINARY

    Compare with extraordinary
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The figure emerged as ICAP reported a rise in pre-tax profits to £117.5m from £83.8m, after exceptionals and goodwill write-offs.
    • For the six months to June 30, analysts are forecasting pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £13.6m against £12.1m last time, with earnings per share of 20.8p, and dividend per share of 11.9p.
    • Pre-tax profit before exceptionals and investment in digital media and the free Metro title rose 14% to #104 million in the 26-week period ended July 2.
    • The bank posted a 12% hike in pre-tax profits before exceptionals to £6.45 bn.
    • Gym operator LA Fitness is expected to post full-year pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £8.7m on Wednesday, against £7.2m, according to consensus analyst forecasts.
    • BPI, which has experienced a surge in its share price, is expected to announce pre-tax profits before exceptionals of £7.8m. Earnings per share will come in at 19.6p, and dividend per share will be 7p.
    • We base our group profit share on pre-tax, pre exceptionals which were down £10 million.
    • At the half-year results in February he revealed that pre-tax profits before exceptionals slipped from £1.29 bn to £1.24 bn.
    • Throw in the write-downs on Imperial Holly and Greencore has incurred €310m worth of exceptionals since 2000, a sum equivalent to almost 50% of its current market cap.
    • According to a consensus of analysts' forecasts, the group will post profits before exceptionals and goodwill of about £100m, up from £75.8m last time.
    • Since then, oil has gained 20%: implying that the fuel charge has now risen to €7.2m, a sizeable chunk when 2004 profits before exceptionals amounted to €19m.
    • The Edinburgh company is expected to announce pre-tax profits before exceptionals of between £41m and £42m - in line with market forecasts - due mainly to its property developments.
    • The group is tipped to say pre-tax losses before exceptionals have halved to £2.5m from £5.7m previously.
    • This drop in operating profit caused pre-tax profit before accounting for exceptionals to fall from a profit of £59.1m last year into a loss of £2m this time.
    • Profit before tax and goodwill, but after exceptionals, is expected to hit £71m, up from £29.5m in 2002, according to a survey of analysts by Reuters.
    • RBS reports results on August 5, with profits before goodwill and exceptionals forecast to come in at £3.52 bn against £3.15 bn in the same period the year before.
    • If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
    • Analysts expect profits before tax and exceptionals to be between 866m and 867m, up 9% on last year.
    • The local management is hoping for a better full year out-turn than last year, but it is not stated whether this is before or after exceptionals are taken into account.
    • The consensus forecast for the year for profit before tax, goodwill and exceptionals is £905m compared with £836m the previous year, with all divisions expected to show an increase in profitability.

Derivatives

  • exceptionality

  • noun ɪksɛpʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtiɛksɛpʃ(ə)ˈnalɪtiɪkˌsɛpʃəˈnælədi
    • A belief in your country's exceptionality takes you way out beyond the warm self-appreciation of patriotism; in naming your heritage ‘exceptional,’ you cut your ties to the family of nations and set yourself above the rules.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet his exceptionality captured on canvas, the very extremity he paints into being, seems to threaten us all.
      • Though imitation should forge some mimetic relation between Ladies and Belphebe, her absolute exceptionality denies the possibility of this relation.
      • One question is how simple and transparent the phonemic/phonetic relationship is, and the other is whether morphological exceptionality is allowed as an integral part of that relationship.
      • The visit by Laban is worth underscoring for its exceptionality.
      • In trying to answer these questions, Cluster is an unprecedented diagnostic tool for the first three-dimensional map of the near-Earth environment, its exceptionality being given by its multi-spacecraft simultaneous observations.
      • ‘A trained eye knows how to read the cityscape and finds it can be an adventure,’ observes Campanella, a Brooklyn native who has been intrigued with New Orleans since childhood because of its exceptionality from the national norm.
      • His fans might not have numbered much more than 140,000 on the typical record release, but that was no barometer to anything except the exceptionality of those people, and their good judgment.
      • This is telling me that everybody is welcome at this school no matter what your income, no matter your exceptionality, no matter your race, no matter what…
      • So then we have a comedic genre whose best work exemplifies the genre itself, and a science fiction genre whose best work is based on exceptionality from the genre.
      • The teacher understands and can provide adaptations for areas of exceptionality in learning - including learning disabilities, visual and perceptual difficulties, and special physical or mental challenges.
      • This exceptionality allows the establishment of a sort of democracy: we are all equal because we all have the right to break the law’.
      • I don't think it absolves the low-level MPs from moral responsibility, but it should steer us away from explanations which depend on their moral exceptionality.
      • But the only exceptionality that really matters-since all nations are in their way sui generis-is the configuration that has founded its global hegemony.
      • He may be less optimistic now, but Fukuyama retains an uncompromising belief in human exceptionality.
      • The ability to operate effortlessly in more than one domain of reality shows not schizophrenia but exceptionality, the generative elements that define the inspired artist who represents life.
      • If you want to show your exceptionality, you should spend your energy in real life rather than on the Internet.
      • ‘Her exceptionality shined through in her undergraduate days,’ says Prestage from her home in Houston.
      • Hall's odes to American progress, mission, and exceptionality characterize a good portion of the early historiography of the Old Northwest and the westward movement generally.
      • But the story of the asylum seekers in Papua and New Guinea is also relevant because it demonstrates the exceptionality of the present.

Rhymes

conceptional, perceptional

Definition of exceptional in US English:

exceptional

adjectiveˌɪkˈsɛpʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌikˈsepSH(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Unusual; not typical.

    罕见的;不寻常的;例外的

    crimes of exceptional callousness and cruelty
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Although this may be increased in very exceptional circumstances,’ said Debbie.
    • They only come before councillors in exceptional circumstances and the criteria for rejecting them are narrower than in other planning matters.
    • Independent appeal panels are also to be advised that such decisions should only be overturned under exceptional circumstances.
    • Bidding on rare and unusual items in exceptional condition was very aggressive, pushing prices to new highs.
    • Again, there is no suggestion here that paying more than would be justified on a strict royalty calculation is an unusual or exceptional practice.
    • While superficially complex, this was not an exceptional case.
    • No more than three or four awards of this nature are made in the course of a year and only in exceptional circumstances to people outside Spain.
    • ‘They are pretty exceptional circumstances,’ he said, trying to keep his anger hidden.
    • In exceptional circumstances, proposals or amendments could be introduced after the circulation of the agenda.
    • There is currently some 30,000 farmers receiving exceptional circumstances drought relief.
    • This irrational checklist has nothing to do with pasta or pizzas, or indeed with the food at all - except in exceptional circumstances.
    • This is certainly a very unique case, a very exceptional set of circumstances.
    • The judge awarded costs because of the exceptional circumstances.
    • We will publish manuscripts over 30,000 words only under exceptional circumstances.
    • He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren.
    • There are rare and exceptional circumstances in existence in this case.
    • It can only be displaced by unusual or exceptional circumstances.
    • The Human Rights Act is, I believe, open to re-negotiation in certain exceptional circumstances.
    • Applications for damage to cars or non-essential items will not normally be considered, other than in exceptional circumstances.
    • My old laptop was retired because of a really weird problem, which was that the computer would only start in exceptional circumstances.
    Synonyms
    unusual, uncommon, abnormal, atypical, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of the way, rare, singular, unprecedented, unexpected, surprising
    1. 1.1 Unusually good; outstanding.
      优越的;杰出的
      a pepper offering exceptional flavor and juiciness
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you have not tried pecorino cheese, give it a chance, it is has kind of a salty exceptional taste full of flavor more so than Parmesan.
      • This is a sure bet because carbon has an exceptional ability to link up with other atoms into long chains, or polymers.
      • It is the combination of exceptional memory and calculating ability which seems to combine in many of those we consider.
      • His two points were superb efforts and his overall display marked him out as a player of exceptional ability.
      • Reed has been fielding some punts in practice, and he is an exceptional athlete with big-play ability.
      • Williams has exceptional hands and leaping ability and can beat linebackers deep with his speed.
      • Ted was a remarkable and exceptional man, who just happened to also live for 106 years.
      • She also had the exceptional ability to recall vividly small incidents in her life, and recount them without any exaggeration.
      • The style of government directed by Henry II and his sons was exceptional for its penetrative ability and aggressive quality.
      • Hawkins doesn't have exceptional coverage ability but is aggressive and physical.
      • So far, so good, as most of the items on the menu are of reasonable price, significant size and exceptional flavor.
      • The Savage bolt action has always provided outstanding accuracy and exceptional value for the money.
      • Lincoln appears to have been a man who loved to laugh and used his exceptional story telling ability to his advantage.
      • Some autistic children show, at an unusually early age, exceptional abilities in music, graphic art or arithmetic.
      • McDaniel has functional speed but exceptional instincts and playmaking ability.
      • And Kaushik, who had an exceptional ability in identifying the cars manufactured worldwide.
      • The Dolby Digital 5.1 also sounds exceptional, with outstanding separation in the mix.
      • Bernard's exceptional rugby ability has not gone unnoticed and he has recently been invited to play rugby with Leinster.
      • Writers are liked or disliked for something much vaster than their exceptional ability with language.
      • The breed is also noted for its endurance ability, and its exceptional disposition.
      Synonyms
      outstanding, extraordinary, remarkable, unusually good, special, especial, excellent, phenomenal, prodigious
    2. 1.2US (of a child) mentally or physically disabled so as to require special schooling.
      helping parents of exceptional children
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In his other life, Dale is an unprofessional musician and the father of two exceptional children.
      • He cannot then be made liable for the exceptional child that strays, nor will he be required to prove that any particular parent has been negligent.
      • Talking about his son who has Downs Syndrome he points out that they are exceptional children or people, who want to be loved, the same as we all do.
      • Ramesh's impeded mobility and poor physical conditioning were exceptional.
      • He even realized that the young man was exceptional, but not exactly in a good way.
      • Schools receive little money from state or federal sources to offset disabled students' exceptional needs.

Usage

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