Idiosyncrasy
[,ɪdɪə(ʊ)'sɪŋkrəsɪ] or [,ɪdɪə'sɪŋkrəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual.
整理:昆廷--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A peculiarity of physical or mental constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity.
布赖恩特編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Peculiarity (of constitution), idiocrasy, peculiar temperament.
达伦編輯
解釋/意思:
n. peculiarity of temperament or constitution; crotchet or peculiar view any characteristic of a person.—adj. Idiosyncrat′ic.
汉密尔顿校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The modern world deals with the drama of little things, and the individual idiosyncrasy is caricatured instead of the national policy. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- One idiosyncrasy for which she often apologized, she found it excessively difficult to conquer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I acknowledge to this ridiculous idiosyncrasy, as a reason why I would give them a little more play. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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