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crop circle noun[ C ] uk /ˈkrɒp ˌsɜː.kəl/ us /ˈkrɑːp ˌsɝː.kəl/ an area in a field of crops where the crops have been made flat in a regular pattern, often a circle or series of circles, which people sometimes believe has been done by aliens(= creatures from a different planet): 麦田怪圈 The picture shows him standing in a mysterious 15-foot-wide crop circle in his soybean field.这张照片显示他站在自己大豆田间一个15英尺宽的神秘麦田怪圈里。 A crop circle expert who spent three days studying those circles concluded they were caused by some unexplained natural phenomenon.一位麦田怪圈专家花了三天时间研究这些圆圈后得出结论,它们是由一些无法解释的自然现象造成的。 Holger Leue/The Image Bank/GettyImages Fall often brings sightings of mysterious crop circles in Ohio, and this season the Miami Valley has one of its own. The famous crop circles of England were exposed as the work of human pranksters, not space aliens. Several scientific papers suggest other possible explanations for the crop circle phenomenon than aliens or pranksters. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people alien anomaly anti-alien Bermuda Triangle corn circle flake kook kryptonite loiterer Martian masochist pervert quirk screwball sicko sociopath sociopathic space cadet spaceman whack job
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