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单词 quirk
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quirk
noun[C]
uk
/kwɜːk/us
/kwɝːk/
anunusualhabitorpartof someone'spersonality, or something that isstrangeandunexpected:
怪癖；古怪之处
You have to get used to other people's quirks andfoibles.你得习惯别人的怪癖和小缺点。
There is a quirk in therulesthatallowsyou toinvestmoneywithoutpayingtax.这些规章的奇怪之处在于其允许人们投资而不必缴税。
Bysomestrangequirk/Byanoddquirkoffate(=unexpectedly), weendedup on the sametrain.说来奇怪，我们结果上了同一辆火车。
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
(Definition ofquirkfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

quirk| American Dictionary

quirk
noun[C]
us
/kwɜrk/
anunusualhabitortypeofbehavior, or something that isstrangeandunexpected:
apersonalityquirk
It’s just one of the quirks oflivingthere.

quirky

adjective[-er/-est only]us
/ˈkwɜr·ki/
a quirky,offbeatsenseofhumor
(Definition ofquirkfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofquirk

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He rails against formalists who suppose that autonomous grammar emerged as an abrupt geneticquirk.
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Priming the dictionary in this way provides the corrector with information about the quirks.
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Individual style may be consigned to the psychological blackbox ofquirkand creativity, but collective style demands a more accessible, structural explanation.
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Historians have begun to notice, without needing to dismiss it as an embarrassingly sentimental anachronisticquirk, that religion was a vital issue for early socialists.
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However, this deviation was argued to be attributable to aquirkin the noun set rather than in the adjective set.
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Representation of distal affairs as needed to guide the organism's activity is the norm for nearly all perception, not a specialquirkof human perception.
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Onequirkof the tortoises' circuitry was that, as the batteries became exhausted, the gain of the amplifiers decreased.
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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.
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Any satisfactory view of precedent must see distinguishing as an integral part of it rather than as an add-on orquirkof the common law.
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Quirkreported this insidious failing and linked it to high-resolution computations of planar shock waves.
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The absence from the special issue of papers presenting comprehensive adjustments to the national accounts is perhaps partly aquirkof the specific papers received.
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Quirkdoes not use any ideological terms for his concerns; that does not, however, mean that his position cannot be related to an ideological position.
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That is, anyquirkof a construction is sufficient to represent that construction as an independent node.
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The breaks and quirks of the following text reflect this difficulty.
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One possibility is that it is merely an unreplicablequirkpeculiar to this dataset.
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