oddities

英 [ˈɒdɪtiz]

美 [ˈɑdətiz]

n.  古怪反常的人(或事物); 怪现象; 古怪; 怪异; 反常
oddity的复数

柯林斯词典

• 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

双语例句

• One of the oddities of this saga is that most Americans 67%, according to the latest CNN poll agree with Mr Obama that it is right to let gays serve openly in the military.
  这一连串事件中让人感到奇怪的是，根据CNN的最新民调，大约67%的美国人支持奥巴马关于允许同性恋者公开在军队中服役的意见。
• The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
  一般志得意满的时髦的西方人总认为，茶道仪式不过是组成东方古怪幼稚特质的一千零一种奇特仪式中最为寻常的一种。
• One of the more attractive oddities of the United States is that our minorities are so numerous, so huge. A minority of millions is not at all unusual.
  我们支持的少数派其实数目是如此庞大，这正是美国充满吸引力的一大奇特之处：人员达数百万的少数派的存在是再正常不过了。
• Over a raw-fish supper, he professed to find the eccentricities of Britain's class system every bit as puzzling as Japan's supposed oddities.
  在享用生鱼片晚餐时，他声称自己发现了英国阶级制度中跟日本所谓的古怪之处同样离奇的地方。
• Mr Tucker honed in on one of the oddities of the US system: it is "really quite hard to grasp", he said, how two parts of the new US regime "work together".
  塔克抱怨的是美国体制中的一个怪异之处：他表示“确实很难理解”美国新相关机制的两个部分如何“协调工作”。
• While the law contains some protectionist oddities – such as the exemption for certain state-owned industries and the national security clearance rule mentioned above – its general provisions make no distinction between foreign and domestic enterprises.
  尽管该法律中包含一些保护主义成分例如对某些国有行业的豁免以及上面提到的国家安全审查规定但其总体条款并未对外资企业和国内企业加以区分。
• These varieties may well turn out to be more than oddities; they could help us untangle the web of Europe's Vitis vinifera, the vine species responsible for wine.
  这些品种可能将被证明不仅仅是怪异品种；它们可能有助于我们理清欧洲葡萄科纷繁复杂的关系。葡萄是用来酿造红酒的藤本植物。
• For collectors these mysterious entities are both oddities and essentials. They are yellow diamonds that turn an intense green once exposed to light and the smallest of them retails for 249,000.
  对于收藏者来说，这两颗神奇的钻石不仅非常奇异而且是收藏品中的精华。钻石原本呈黄色，一旦暴露于灯光下就会变为深绿色，其中较小的那颗售价24.9万英镑。
• A shop devoted to oddities, rubber fruit, explosive cigars.
  一家专门出售橡胶水果、会爆炸的雪茄等怪玩意儿的商店。
• "I told him it was an amazing animal show with freaks and oddities," Strong told The News.
  我告诉他，这是一个令人惊异的动物展，都是畸形和怪胎。