| 单词 | oddity |
| 释义 | oddity noun[C] uk/ˈɒd.ɪ.ti/us/ˈɑː.də.t̬i/someone or something that isstrangeandunusual: 怪人；怪事；反常现象Even today a man whostaysathometo takecareof thechildrenisregardedas 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
oddity| American Dictionaryoddity noun[C] us/ˈɑd·ɪ·t̬i/someone or something that isstrangeandunusual: As one of the few women inengineeringin the 1950s, she wasconsideredan oddity. Examplesofoddityoddity Obviously it is anodditybecause of its peculiar origins and recruitment and because of the bizarre political framework in which it operated. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead, he considers explaining theiroddityby a semantic incongruity akin to zeugma or syllepsis. From theCambridge English Corpus This way, the scientist can make intuitive sense of the program's behavior, and be alert to patterns and oddities. From theCambridge English Corpus Anotheroddity, the book is addressed to the seventeenth century, yet the two final essays relate to the twentieth. From theCambridge English Corpus The spelling oddities which appear in the archival documents are as given in the original. From theCambridge English Corpus But thisodditycan be resolved in a number of ways. From theCambridge English Corpus No one knows why they are aligned in this order, but it seems to be a kind of syllogism from two other oddities. From theCambridge English Corpus The ability to detect onset was assessed using anodditytask. From theCambridge English Corpus Again, this task was based on some of the same words used in theodditytask. From theCambridge English Corpus As a direct test of this implication, the effect of rhyme neighbourhood density on performance in the rhymeodditytask is investigated in this paper. From theCambridge English Corpus One puzzlingoddityis the very abrupt ending, so abrupt indeed that one must wonder whether something went wrong in the production process. From theCambridge English Corpus In each session, oneodditytask and one segmentation or synthesis task was administered. From theCambridge English Corpus There are some disadvantages with such a suggestion, but it would explain a number of apparent oddities in the construction of compounds. From theCambridge English Corpus However, there is a definiteoddityabout this collection. From theCambridge English Corpus However, our rhyme neighbourhood density findings were mediated by unexpected variations in the difficulty of the different versions of theodditytask. From theCambridge English Corpus 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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