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　

考研GRETEM8

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
  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。

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.
  1. 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。
  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。
• N-COUNT 怪癖;古怪的性格
  Aquirkis a habit or aspect of a person's character which is odd or unusual.
  1. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
     布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

英英释义

noun

• a narrow groove beside a beading
• a strange attitude or habit
  Synonym:oddityqueernessquirkinesscrotchet

verb

• twist or curve abruptly
  1. She quirked her head in a peculiar way

双语例句

• However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.
  不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。
• 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。
• Quirk# 2: Should the dialog be displayed?
  状况2：是否应该显示对话？
• On the whole, I really enjoyed this space for the pure quirk and whimsy of it.
  从整体上来说，我真的非常享受这个纯净同时充满新奇理念的空间。
• 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。
• One solution to these two problems was used in a study by Muller at al. ( 2003) published in Nature which relies on a quirk of the brain's electrical response to certain visual stimuli.
  对这两个问题的一个解答是在《自然》杂志上发表的Mulleratal。（2003）的一份研究报告中采用。它依靠于对某些视觉刺激大脑做出的一种奇特电反应。
• Just about every banker has some quirk, says Charles Nelson, director of the Baron Group merchant bank.
  差不多每个银行家都有些怪癖，BaronGroup商业银行总监查尔斯•尼尔森（CharlesNelson）说。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。