oddity
英 [ˈɒdəti]
美 [ˈɑːdəti]
n. 古怪反常的人(或事物); 怪现象; 古怪; 怪异; 反常
复数:oddities
Collins.1 / BNC.13977 / COCA.13984
牛津词典
noun
- 古怪反常的人(或事物);怪现象
a person or thing that is strange or unusual- The book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling.
这本书专讲语法和拼写方面的某些不规则现象。
- The book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling.
- 古怪;怪异;反常
the quality of being strange or unusual- She suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
她突然意识到自己的话很奇怪,脸一下子红了。
- She suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 怪人;怪事
Anoddityis someone or something that is very strange.- Losing my hair made me feel an oddity...
脱发使我觉得自己是个怪人。 - Carlson noticed another oddity; his plant had bloomed twice.
卡尔森注意到另外一件怪事:他的植物开了两次花。
- Losing my hair made me feel an oddity...
- N-COUNT 奇怪;古怪;奇特
Theoddity ofsomething is the fact that it is very strange.- ...the oddities of the Welsh legal system.
威尔士法律体系的奇特之处
- ...the oddities of the Welsh legal system.
英英释义
noun
- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- a strange attitude or habit
- eccentricity that is not easily explained
双语例句
- In those days a working mother was regarded as a bit of an oddity.
在当时,一个外出工作的母亲被认为有点怪异。 - From his weird behaviour, he seems a bit of an oddity.
从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。 - He must be an oddity, I think, said she.
我看他一定是个古怪人,她说。 - While this is an unusual local oddity, here is a map showing the different daylight saving and time zone rules in all their complicated glory.
尽管这是个不正常的当地怪事,这是一张地图,从他们繁复的丰功伟业之中,展示出不同的日光节约和时区规范。 - There is also an oddity in this renewed emphasis on quantitative easing.
此外,市场再度关注定量宽松颇为怪异。 - Here is the oddity: if you ask Schwab what is happening to the conference business now, it does not seem to have been seriously disrupted at all. Far from it.
奇怪的是:如果你问施瓦布,会议业现在正在发生什么事情,你会发现这个行业似乎根本没有被严重颠覆&远远谈不上。 - Another notable oddity is that the thermal properties of this type of superfluid are different from normal superfluid properties.
另一个引人注目的怪异之处是这种超流体的热性质与正常超流体的截然不同。 - As a teetotaler, he was an oddity among journalists.
作为一名绝对戒酒主义者,他成了记者圈中的怪人。 - Its oddity and complexity makes its communicating functions weaken and is thus on the brink of extinction.
它的奇异和复杂,使得交际功能大为减弱,濒于消亡。 - Here are two stories not having to do with death per se that may help us get a feel for the oddity of trying to disregard these facts.
下面有两个和死亡本身无关的故事,可能会让我们感觉到,试图无视这些事实的奇怪之处。