Oddity
['ɒdɪtɪ] or ['ɑdəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a strange attitude or habit.
(noun.) eccentricity that is not easily explained.
校對:拉弗尔斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like.
(n.) That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
艾比校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Singularity, strangeness, queerness.
整理:纳特
例句/造句/用法:
- It's all of a piece with Casaubon's oddity. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I may be a bit of an oddity in point of temper, but this is my temper--I can't let anybody have entirely their own way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr. Bumble sat himself down; quite confounded by the oddity of Mr. Grimwig's manner. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But you are such a little oddity! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The circulation, sir,' returned Bitzer, smiling at the oddity of the question, 'couldn't be carried on without one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Why, heaven save us, man, exclaimed my guardian, surprised into his old oddity and vehemence, you talk of yourself as if you were somebody else! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He must be an oddity, I think, said she. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- There's an oddity in things, now. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But there are oddities in things, continued Mr. Brooke, whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Those words express another of his incomprehensible oddities. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
欧内斯特整理