英语词汇“oddity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

oddityodd‧i‧ty /ˈɒdəti $ ˈɑː-/ noun (plural oddities)

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

A white buffalo is an animal oddity.
The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

But, as with Herczeg s letter to the Reader, it is the last sentence that is the real oddity.
Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.
Horton was considered an oddity by most eastern cognoscenti, and his school and company at best a noble experiment.
The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.
Their very oddity deterred him from doing so.
There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities.

WORD FAMILYnounoddityadjectiveoddadverboddly

1[countable] a strange or unusual person or thing:

In a class of 120 students there were four women including myself, and I still felt rather an oddity.2[countable, uncountable] a strange quality in someone or something:

60s fashions that are remembered for their oddity

单词	oddity
释义	oddityodd‧i‧ty /ˈɒdəti $ ˈɑː-/ noun (plural oddities) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES A white buffalo is an animal oddity. The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But, as with Herczeg s letter to the Reader, it is the last sentence that is the real oddity. Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity. Horton was considered an oddity by most eastern cognoscenti, and his school and company at best a noble experiment. The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art. Their very oddity deterred him from doing so. There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities. Word family WORD FAMILYnounoddityadjectiveoddadverboddly 1[countable] a strange or unusual person or thing: In a class of 120 students there were four women including myself, and I still felt rather an oddity.2[countable, uncountable] a strange quality in someone or something: 60s fashions that are remembered for their oddity
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