oddity

英 [ˈɒdəti]

美 [ˈɑːdəti]

n. 古怪反常的人(或事物); 怪现象; 古怪; 怪异; 反常

复数：oddities　

Collins.1 / BNC.13977 / COCA.13984

牛津词典

noun

古怪反常的人（或事物）；怪现象
a person or thing that is strange or unusual
1. The book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling.
  这本书专讲语法和拼写方面的某些不规则现象。
古怪；怪异；反常
the quality of being strange or unusual
1. She suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
  她突然意识到自己的话很奇怪，脸一下子红了。

N-COUNT 怪人；怪事
Anoddityis someone or something that is very strange.
1. Losing my hair made me feel an oddity...
  脱发使我觉得自己是个怪人。
2. Carlson noticed another oddity; his plant had bloomed twice.
  卡尔森注意到另外一件怪事：他的植物开了两次花。
N-COUNT 奇怪；古怪；奇特
Theoddity ofsomething is the fact that it is very strange.
1. ...the oddities of the Welsh legal system.
  威尔士法律体系的奇特之处

noun

something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Synonym:curiocuriosityoddmentpeculiarityrarity
a strange attitude or habit
Synonym:queernessquirkquirkinesscrotchet
eccentricity that is not easily explained
Synonym:oddness

Another oddity has been the recent performance of gold.
另外一件出奇的事是最近黄金的表现。
In those days a working mother was regarded as a bit of an oddity.
在当时，一个外出工作的母亲被认为有点怪异。
Running JavaScript on the server is not some oddity.
在服务器端运行JavaScript并不是什么怪事。
He must be an oddity, I think, said she.
我看他一定是个古怪人，她说。
The last line is an oddity: For whatever reason, the function port?
最后一行有点古怪，不知道由于什么原因，SSAX所用的函数port？
Carlson noticed another oddity; his plant had bloomed twice.
卡尔森注意到另外一件怪事：他的植物开了两次花。
This barber was a fellow of great oddity and humour.
这理发师是个十分古怪而又富有幽默感的家伙。
Here is the oddity: if you ask Schwab what is happening to the conference business now, it does not seem to have been seriously disrupted at all. Far from it.
奇怪的是：如果你问施瓦布，会议业现在正在发生什么事情，你会发现这个行业似乎根本没有被严重颠覆&远远谈不上。
Even today a man who stays at home to look after the children is regardedas something of an oddity.
即使在今天人们仍认为在家照看孩子的男人是个怪人。
A genteel eccentric, an amusing oddity.
一个彬彬有礼、惹人发笑的怪人。