quirk
英 [kwɜːk]
美 [kwɜːrk]
n. 怪异的性格(或行为); 怪癖; (尤指偶发的)怪事,奇事
复数:quirks 过去式:quirked 现在分词:quirking
Collins.1 / BNC.14107 / COCA.12149
牛津词典
noun
- 怪异的性格(或行为);怪癖
an aspect of sb's personality or behaviour that is a little strange - (尤指偶发的)怪事,奇事
a strange thing that happens, especially by accident- 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。
- By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (偶然发生的)奇事,趣事
Aquirkis something unusual or interesting that happens by chance.- 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。 - 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。
- By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship...
- N-COUNT 怪癖;古怪的性格
Aquirkis a habit or aspect of a person's character which is odd or unusual.- Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
- Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
英英释义
noun
- a narrow groove beside a beading
- a strange attitude or habit
verb
- twist or curve abruptly
- She quirked her head in a peculiar way
双语例句
- She prefers to see Edward's fascination with Bella as a strange quirk& and a transitory one at that.
她更情愿把爱德华对贝拉的迷恋看成是他的一个怪癖&而且还应只是暂时的。 - 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。 - This is the result of a deliberate plan by the Hong Kong regulator rather than a quirk of fate.
这是香港监管机构有意而为的结果,并非天意如此。 - I also discovered that XFS has a singular performance quirk: it doesn't delete files very quickly; it was easily bested by both ReiserFS and ext3 in this area.
我还发现XFS有一个单点性能缺陷:它删除文件不是很快;在这一方面,ReiserFS和ext3轻易地胜过了它。 - The standard theory of bad moods is rooted in a psychological quirk known as ego depletion.
有关坏情绪的标准理论源于心理学上的“自我损耗”。 - Some critics have questioned whether the linkage between income inequality and worse health is merely a mathematical quirk.
有些批评者质疑,收入不均与健康情况不良之间的关联,可能只是数学的怪异表现。 - An added quirk is that your screen saver is also set to make a slideshow of these pictures.
你也可以将你的屏幕保护设置为这些图片的幻灯片形式。 - Ironically, another quirk comes to our help here.
实际上,另外一个因素在这里提供了帮助。 - The second quirk is that you cannot pass arbitrary shell commands in.
第二种状况是您不能传入任意shell命令。 - Others among us, myself included, thought it just an odd quirk.
包括我在内的其他人则认为这只是一种怪癖。