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
- 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。 - 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。 - An individual characteristic; a quirk.
独特性，特色；特殊的东西；怪癖。 - 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。 - 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。 - The "*" is a historical quirk.
是一个历史怪象。 - Quirk# 2: Should the dialog be displayed?
状况2：是否应该显示对话？ - 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。 - 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。 - Asset managers have never faced such stiff competition, says Ben Phillips, partner of Casey Quirk, a US consultancy.
美国咨询公司CaseyQuirk的合伙人本菲利普斯（BenPhillips）表示，资产管理公司从未面对过如此激烈的竞争。