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eldritch

\EL-drich\ , adjective:
1.Strange; unearthly; weird; eerie.
形容词 a.
1.怪异的;可怕的

Quotes:
In the eldritch light of evening in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, the eye plays tricks on the brain.
~Thom Stark, "Something's Burning", Boardwatch, November 2000
The immitigable mountains and their stark, eldritch trees; coasts where earth abruptly snapped off, never to be continued, or beaches which gnawed it to bright dust and sucked it gently away. . . .
~Carolyn Kizer, "A Childhood South of Nowhere", New York Times, April 9, 1989

Origin:
Eldritch perhaps derives from a Middle English word meaning "fairyland," from Middle English elf, "elf" (from Old English aelf) + riche, "kingdom" (from Old English rice).