| 词汇 | oddity |
| 释义 | oddity noun[ C ] uk /ˈɒd.ɪ.ti/ us /ˈɑː.də.t̬i/ someone or something that is strange and unusual: 怪人；怪事；反常现象 Even today a man who stays at home to take care of the children is regarded as something of an oddity.即便在今天，人们仍然认为一个大男人呆在家里照看小孩是件怪事。 Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people alien anomaly anti-alien Bermuda Triangle corn circle flake grotesque kook kryptonite loiterer Martian pervert quirk screwball sicko sociopath sociopathic space cadet spaceman whack job oddity | American Dictionaryoddity noun[ C ] us/ˈɑd·ɪ·t̬i/ someone or something that is strange and unusual: As one of the few women in engineering in the 1950s, she was considered an oddity. Examples of oddityoddity Obviously it is an oddity because of its peculiar origins and recruitment and because of the bizarre political framework in which it operated. Instead, he considers explaining their oddity by a semantic incongruity akin to zeugma or syllepsis. This way, the scientist can make intuitive sense of the program's behavior, and be alert to patterns and oddities. Another oddity, the book is addressed to the seventeenth century, yet the two final essays relate to the twentieth. The spelling oddities which appear in the archival documents are as given in the original. But this oddity can be resolved in a number of ways. No one knows why they are aligned in this order, but it seems to be a kind of syllogism from two other oddities. The ability to detect onset was assessed using an oddity task. Again, this task was based on some of the same words used in the oddity task. As a direct test of this implication, the effect of rhyme neighbourhood density on performance in the rhyme oddity task is investigated in this paper. One puzzling oddity is the very abrupt ending, so abrupt indeed that one must wonder whether something went wrong in the production process. In each session, one oddity task and one segmentation or synthesis task was administered. There are some disadvantages with such a suggestion, but it would explain a number of apparent oddities in the construction of compounds. However, there is a definite oddity about this collection. However, our rhyme neighbourhood density findings were mediated by unexpected variations in the difficulty of the different versions of the oddity task. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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