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quirk

英 [kwɜːk] 美 [kwɝk]

解释

n. 怪癖；急转；借口
n. (Quirk)人名；(英)夸克

※ 提供单词"quirk"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

中文词源

quirk 怪癖，怪异

词源不详，可能来自queer 的强化形式，引申词义怪癖，怪异。-k,表强调，比较hear,hark.

英文词源

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.

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例句和用法

1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.: 真是天缘奇遇，他们住进了同一家旅馆。

2. The spate of storms and hurricanes in recent years could be a statistical quirk.: 从统计数字上看，近些年来暴风雨和飓风的频发非同寻常。

3. By a tantalising quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.: 仿佛是命运的捉弄，这对选手在锦标赛第一轮比赛中就狭路相逢。

4. Confirmations illustrate an interesting quirk of human behavior: They only work when they are unexpected.: 确认对话框显示了人类行为的一个有趣怪癖, 即它们只在意想不到时起作用.

5. It can be regarded as merely a mathematical quirk of the theory of weak interactions.: 这可被看成仅仅是弱相互作用理论的一种数学上的技巧.