oddball

英 [ˈɒdbɔːl]

美 [ˈɑːdbɔːl]

n.  行为古怪者; 反常者; 怪人
adj.  古怪的

复数：oddballs　

BNC.25359 / COCA.18761

牛津词典

noun

• 行为古怪者；反常者；怪人
  a person who behaves in a strange or unusual way

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 行为古怪的人；怪人
  If you refer to someone as anoddball, you think they behave in a strange way.
  1. His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
     吉姆的父母也认为他有些古怪。
  2. Oddballis also an adjective.
     
  3. I came from a family that was decidedly oddball you know.
     你要知道，我的家人个个古怪得紧。

英英释义

noun

• a person with an unusual or odd personality
  Synonym:eccentriceccentric personflakegeek

双语例句

• Jim is an oddball; he refuses to dress properly for formal occasions.
  吉姆是个怪人，他不愿穿着得体地去参加正式场合的活动。
• The more emotionally detached and unpredictable this oddball is in his actions, the more enthralled his Aquarian woman will be.
  他的感情越疏远、举止越古怪得让人捉摸不透，反而更能让水瓶座女性迷上他。
• The new boss is a bit of an oddball.
  新老板有点古怪。
• Put those words in a sentence or form your own associations to them, no matter how oddball they may seem.
  尽管可能很古怪，但用这些单词造句或形成你对他们的独特联想却是一种很好的记忆方法。
• Finally, string provides a very Pythonic oddball.
  最后，string提供了非常Python化的奇特事物。
• This provides more flexible form handling and slightly better performance than a pure Domino application, but may be considered oddball by pure-J2EE developers.
  这为表单处理提供了更多的灵活性，并且比纯粹的Domino应用程序具有更好的性能，但是很多纯粹的J2EE开发人员可能会认为这种方式非常奇怪。
• It acted as a means of seeing who this funny, oddball philosopher really was, and who I needed to become.
  它成为一种途径，通过它能发现这个可笑而古怪的哲学家的真正面目，以及我将要成为的那种人。
• It's all in service to the question: What does this oddball planet tell us about how the solar system, especially the rocky inner planets, evolved?
  所有涉及这项任务的人员都想问这样的问题：在关于太阳系，特别是内部为岩石的行星，是如何形成的这个问题上，这个古怪的星球将告诉我们什么呢？
• Michael mumford, a psychology professor at the University of Oklahoma who specializes in talent assessment, said that this sort of test was effective, but he cautioned that companies should not rely on oddball factors, even if they seemed to correlate to good performance.
  俄克拉荷马大学的心理学教授迈克专门研究如何寻觅合适人才，他指出此类测验是有效的，但是也警告说公司不能依赖不常用的衡量标准，虽然看起来同优秀业绩有关。
• The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals& a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.
  当她开始起草关于准晶体的论文时，自称漫画迷的她很快意识到她可以通过绘图的方式更好的讲解这些古怪的化合物。准晶体是一种从普通晶体分化出来的子晶体。