quirk

英[kwɜːk] 美[kwɜːrk]
  • n. 怪癖;急转
quirky quirkily quirkiness
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星级词汇:
  • quibble v.争论;推托;说模棱两可的话;说俏皮话;谬论n.吹毛求疵;遁辞;谬论;双关话
    n. (名词)
    1. 怪癖
    2. 突然的转变
    3. 字的花体
    4. 藉口
    5. 【建】槽
    6. 奇事
    7. 巧合
    8. 花体
    9. 怪异的性格
    10. 怪事
    11. 偶发事件
    12. 双关话
    13. 双关语
    14. 遁辞
    15. 俏皮话
    16. 口实
    17. 警句
    18. 讥讽话
    19. 不定心
    v. (动词)
    1. 嘲讽
    2. 弯曲
    3. 扭曲
    4. 使弯曲
    5. 古怪地说话
    6. 挥鞭急打
    7. 使有深槽

英英释义

Noun:
  1. a strange attitude or habit

  2. a narrow groove beside a beading

Verb:
  1. twist or curve abruptly;

    "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"

1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.
真是天缘奇遇,他们住进了同一家旅馆。

来自《权威词典》

2. The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.
从统计数字上看,近些年来暴风雨和飓风的频发非同寻常。

来自柯林斯例句

3. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.
仿佛是命运的捉弄,这对选手在锦标赛第一轮比赛中就狭路相逢。

来自柯林斯例句

4. Confirmations illustrate an interesting quirk of human behavior: They only work when they are unexpected.
确认对话框显示了人类行为的一个有趣怪癖, 即 它们只在意想不到时起作用.

来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

5. It can be regarded as merely a mathematical quirk of the theory of weak interactions.
这可被看成仅仅是弱相互作用理论的一种数学上的技巧.

来自辞典例句

    用作名词 (n.)
    1. The most annoying quirk of his is wearing a cap all the time.
      他最令人感到厌恶的怪癖就是无论何时都戴著帽子。
    2. He has a strange quirk of addressing his wife as Mrs Smith.
      他很怪,把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。
    3. By some quirk of fate the two of us were on the same train.
      出于命运安排,我们两人乘上了同一列火车。