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

• Quirk# 2: Should the dialog be displayed?
  状况2：是否应该显示对话？
• Now, again, this is not some sort of bizarre quirk of a humorous god.
  现在，又一次，这不是幽默的上帝开的古怪玩笑。
• 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 miserable economic track record is, in part, a quirk of timing.
  这一糟糕的经济周期运行轨迹，部分来说与时间很巧合。
• An individual characteristic; a quirk.
  独特性，特色；特殊的东西；怪癖。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 carving craze is the grave of safe, carefree, efficient skiing, an irrational fantasy, a binding fashion, a quirk bent on putting basic physics to shame!
  对刻滑的狂热，葬送了滑雪的安全性、娱乐性和舒适性，是一个失去理性的白日梦，一个伪装的时髦，一个让基础物理学感到羞愧的怪癖。
• It concludes that despite a quirk here and there, the latest version of Google Desktop is full of improvements that make a very good thing even better.
  它的结论是，尽管俏皮话这里和那里，最新版本的谷歌桌面是全面的改进，使一个很好的事情做得更好。