| 释义 |
quirkily, adv.|ˈkwɜːkɪlɪ|
[f. quirky a. + -ly2.]
In a manner which displays a randomness or quaintness of choice or performance.
1957New Yorker 2 Nov. 166/3 All the way from the primarily non-objective..to the quirkily archaic. 1965Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1068/3 In a much more quirkily disorganized way, a poem like John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1959) makes a similar effort of disenchanted excavation. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 1 Aug. 8/3 Miss Norway likes to read poetry. Miss Ireland likes the Moderns. Miss Sweden, quirkily, likes Science Fiction. 1975J. Butcher Copy-Editing xiii. 221 Scientists and mathematicians often use terms which have not yet become absorbed into general scientific language and may be quirkily hyphenated and capitalized. |