quirks

英 [kwɜːks]

美 [kwɜːrks]

n.  怪异的性格(或行为); 怪癖; (尤指偶发的)怪事，奇事
quirk的复数

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。

双语例句

• His wiles and quirks do not diminish his humanity.
  他的把戏和怪癖无损于他的人道精神。
• Indeed, weird hat quirks are just the beginning.
  实际上，离奇的帽子怪癖还只是个开始。
• Personality quirks, but I never pegged you for a cynic.
  有个性的怪癖，但是我从没当你是愤世嫉俗者。
• Of course I'm biased ( we all have our quirks), but I think it makes a difference to have actually lived in another culture.
  当然我有偏见（我们都有我们的毛病），但我认为它的确与众不同，以实际居住在另一种文化。
• Observe the unique quirks and behaviors of each animal friend you come across.
  观察你遇到的每个动物独特的怪癖和行为。
• However, XML is a bit verbose, and older browsers'XML implementations have some quirks.
  但XML略显冗长，较老的浏览器的XML实现还有一些古怪的规范。
• I even loved his quirks, like his offbeat sense of humor.
  我甚至喜欢他的怪癖，比如他与众不同的幽默感。
• XML can have lots of constructs and syntactic quirks and parsing is hard.
  XML有很多结构和奇怪的语法习惯，很难进行解析。
• Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
  布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
• I first noticed the different national quirks as a child, living in Sweden and later in the Netherlands.
  我第一次注意到不同国家的人有不同的癖好时还是个孩子，我先在瑞典生活，后来又搬到荷兰。