| 词汇 | quirk |
| 释义 | quirk noun[ C ] uk /kwɜːk/ us /kwɝːk/ an unusual habit or part of someone's personality, or something that is strange and unexpected: 怪癖；古怪之处 You have to get used to other people's quirks and foibles.你得习惯别人的怪癖和小缺点。 There is a quirk in the rules that allows you to invest money without paying tax.这些规章的奇怪之处在于其允许人们投资而不必缴税。 By some strange quirk/By an odd quirk of fate(= unexpectedly), we ended up on the same train.说来奇怪，我们结果上了同一辆火车。 Mind and personality -hearted -heartedly -heartedness alexithymia allism allistic alter ego ambivert Asperger's syndrome gender identity gestaltist jib neurotypical neurotypicality noddle noetic noggin psychoanalysis psychoanalytic subconscious You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people quirk | American Dictionaryquirk noun[ C ] us/kwɜrk/ an unusual habit or type of behavior, or something that is strange and unexpected: a personality quirk It’s just one of the quirks of living there. quirkyadjective[ -er/-est only ]us/ˈkwɜr·ki/ a quirky, offbeat sense of humor Examples of quirkquirk He rails against formalists who suppose that autonomous grammar emerged as an abrupt genetic quirk. Priming the dictionary in this way provides the corrector with information about the quirks. Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox of quirk and creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation. Historians have begun to notice, without needing to dismiss it as an embarrassingly sentimental anachronistic quirk, that religion was a vital issue for early socialists. However, this deviation was argued to be attributable to a quirk in the noun set rather than in the adjective set. Representation of distal affairs as needed to guide the organism's activity is the norm for nearly all perception, not a special quirk of human perception. Our fascination with human quirks may have created cultural spandrels for the survival and propagation of individuals who survived less well without such cultural supports. Any satisfactory view of precedent must see distinguishing as an integral part of it rather than as an add-on or quirk of the common law. Quirk reported this insidious failing and linked it to high-resolution computations of planar shock waves. The absence from the special issue of papers presenting comprehensive adjustments to the national accounts is perhaps partly a quirk of the specific papers received. Quirk does not use any ideological terms for his concerns; that does not, however, mean that his position cannot be related to an ideological position. That is, any quirk of a construction is sufficient to represent that construction as an independent node. The breaks and quirks of the following text reflect this difficulty. One possibility is that it is merely an unreplicable quirk peculiar to this dataset. When she took up battle-painting, it was not just a personal quirk but a political intervention on behalf of women artists. 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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