quirk

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TEM8IELTSGRE低頻詞擴(kuò)展詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?quirks;形容詞:?quirky;

1. quir- => guir- => guai- (怪) + r + k (客) => 怪客，怪兒客 => 有怪癖和古怪性格或行為的人。
2. 諧音“怪客、怪兒客”。
3. queer <====> quirk.
4. IE瀏覽器的怪異模式。

quirk 怪癖，怪異

詞源不詳，可能來自queer 的強(qiáng)化形式，引申詞義怪癖，怪異。-k,表強(qiáng)調(diào)，比較hear,hark.

quirk (n.): 1560s, "quibble, evasion," of unknown origin, perhaps connected to German quer (see queer (adj.)) via notion of twisting and slanting; but its earliest appearance in western England dialect seems to argue against this source. Perhaps originally a technical term for a twist or flourish in weaving. Sense of "peculiarity" is c. 1600.

1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.: 真是天緣奇遇，他們住進(jìn)了同一家旅館。

2. The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.: 從統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字上看，近些年來暴風(fēng)雨和颶風(fēng)的頻發(fā)非同尋常。

3. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.: 仿佛是命運(yùn)的捉弄，這對選手在錦標(biāo)賽第一輪比賽中就狹路相逢。

4. Confirmations illustrate an interesting quirk of human behavior: They only work when they are unexpected.: 確認(rèn)對話框顯示了人類行為的一個(gè)有趣怪癖, 即它們只在意想不到時(shí)起作用.

5. It can be regarded as merely a mathematical quirk of the theory of weak interactions.: 這可被看成僅僅是弱相互作用理論的一種數(shù)學(xué)上的技巧.