quirk
英 [kwɜːk]
美 [kwɝk]
- n. 怪癖；急轉；借口
- n. (Quirk)人名；(英)誇克
助記提示
1. quir- => guir- => guai- (怪) + r + k (客) => 怪客，怪兒客 => 有怪癖和古怪性格或行為的人。
2. 諧音“怪客、怪兒客”。
3. queer <====> quirk.
4. IE瀏覽器的怪異模式。
中文詞源
quirk 怪癖，怪異詞源不詳，可能來自queer 的強化形式，引申詞義怪癖，怪異。-k,表強調，比較hear,hark.
英文詞源
- quirk (n.)
- 1560s, "quibble, evasion," of unknown origin, perhaps connected to German quer (see queer (adj.)) via notion of twisting and slanting; but its earliest appearance in western England dialect seems to argue against this source. Perhaps originally a technical term for a twist or flourish in weaving. Sense of "peculiarity" is c. 1600.
雙語例句
- 1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.
- 真是天緣奇遇，他們住進了同一家旅館。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.
- 從統計數字上看，近些年來暴風雨和颶風的頻發非同尋常。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.
- 仿佛是命運的捉弄，這對選手在錦標賽第一輪比賽中就狹路相逢。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Confirmations illustrate an interesting quirk of human behavior: They only work when they are unexpected.
- 確認對話框顯示了人類行為的一個有趣怪癖, 即 它們隻在意想不到時起作用.
來自About Face 3交互設計精髓
- 5. It can be regarded as merely a mathematical quirk of the theory of weak interactions.
- 這可被看成僅僅是弱相互作用理論的一種數學上的技巧.
來自辭典例句