un·can·ny
adjective/ʌnˈkæni/
/ʌnˈkæni/
- strange and difficult to explain
异常的；难以解释的 - I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched.
我有种被人监视的奇怪感觉。 - It was uncanny really, almost as if she knew what I was thinking.
真是不可思议，她好像知道我在想什么似的。 - He has an uncanny knack of being able to see immediately where the problem lies.
他有一种不可思议的本领，能够立即发现问题所在。 - She bore a quite uncanny resemblance to my Auntie Elsie.
她与我的埃尔西阿姨有着惊人的相似。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUncanny is used with these nouns:- ability
- accuracy
- knack
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally Scots in the sense ‘relating to the occult, malicious’): from un- ‘not’ + canny. - I had an uncanny feeling I was being watched.