quirk

单词quirk

基本解释

n.: 怪癖；怪异的性格（或行为）；（尤指偶发的）怪事
v.: 突然扭曲（嘴或眉毛）；撇嘴；扬眉；皱眉
网络: 夸克；奇事；古怪行为

权威解释

• 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

• 突然扭曲（嘴或眉毛）；撇嘴；扬眉；皱眉:

  to twist your mouth or eyebrows suddenly; (of your mouth or eyebrows) to move in this way

英汉解释

• 【建筑】在(装饰线条等)上作成深槽

• 弯曲,扭曲

• 嘲讽

• 使弯曲

• 挥鞭急打

• 古怪地说话[行动]

• 【音乐】急转

• 【建筑】(鸟喙饰的)深槽

• 三角形物;菱形窗玻璃

• 双关话;遁辞,口实;讥讽话

• 不定心,奇想;奇癖

• (书写等的)花体

• 技巧

• 突然的弯曲[扭曲]

• 〔美俚〕见习空军飞行员

• 诡辨;怪癖

词性分析

• 复数：quirks

同义词

n.flukecoincidenceaccidentchanceoddity

例句

• Growing up in the Iowa farm belt, Dr. Loren Olson always thought of himself as "heterosexual, with a little quirk. "

  罗伦·欧森医生生长在爱荷华州的农业区，一直以来总是觉得自己是“带有一点点怪癖的异性恋者”。

• Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the $215 million make over was "the best birthday present" the city could give its centrepiece.

  布里斯班市长格雷厄姆.夸克说，这项耗资2.15亿美元的翻新工程就是这个城市送给市政厅大楼“最好的生日礼物”。

• Sometimes I said the words out of context to see if by deflection, some quirk of physics, the meaning would suddenly come to me.

  有时，我割裂地来说这些词，看看会不会通过偏离，通过某种物理的突然扭曲，我会突然想出其中的意义。

• Even if the Greenstein and Forman study is just a quirk, which I suspect is not the case, it still points to an interesting issue.

  即使格林斯坦和福尔曼的研究只是个异常现象（我觉得事实并非如此），它仍然指出了一个有趣的问题。

• The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.

  同样不合理的怪癖，正在美国房地产市场出现。

• Everything from the moment they cross their arms to the quirk of their eyebrow, your characters are expressing themselves to you.

  任何动作，从手臂交叉到拧起眉头，你的人物都在表达他们自己。

• Despite the underlying inflation risks, a statistical quirk may push core inflation down in the coming months.

  尽管有着潜在的通胀风险，一个统计特性可能降低将来几个月的核心通胀率。

• Quirk of the parliamentary system though it may be, Italian politics appears to be pretty forgiving to those with economic black marks.

  尽管意大利的议会可能富于奇思怪想，不过意大利的政治似乎相当宽容，不计较经济污点。

• Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.

  农业专家们也表示，这样罕见的情况实则是大自然的一种变异，如果母鸡在生蛋时受到惊吓，就可能产下异常的鸡蛋。

• He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife Mrs. Smith.

  他很怪，把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。