quirk

US [kwɜrk]
UK [kwɜː(r)k]
  • n.怪癖；怪异的性格（或行为）；（尤指偶发的）怪事
  • v.突然扭曲（嘴或眉毛）；撇嘴；扬眉；皱眉
  • Web夸克；奇事；古怪行为
Plural Form：quirks  

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Quirk
n.
1.
怪异的性格（或行为）；怪癖an aspect of sb's personality or behaviour that is a little strange
2.
（尤指偶发的）怪事，奇事a strange thing that happens, especially by accident
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。
v.
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突然扭曲（嘴或眉毛）；撇嘴；扬眉；皱眉to twist your mouth or eyebrows suddenly; (of your mouth or eyebrows) to move in this way
David quirked an eyebrow and smirked slightly.
戴维突然扬了扬眉毛，轻轻地傻笑了一下。
Her lips quirked suddenly.
她的嘴唇突然抽动了一下。

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1.
Growing up in the Iowa farm belt, Dr. Loren Olson always thought of himself as "heterosexual, with a little quirk. "
罗伦·欧森医生生长在爱荷华州的农业区，一直以来总是觉得自己是“带有一点点怪癖的异性恋者”。
luó lún · ōu sēn yī shēng shēng zhǎng zài ài hé huá zhōu de nóng yè qū , yì zhí yǐ lái zǒng shì jué de zì jǐ shì " dài yǒu yì diǎn diǎn guài pǐ de yì xìng liàn zhě " 。
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2.
Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the $215 million make over was "the best birthday present" the city could give its centrepiece.
布里斯班市长格雷厄姆.夸克说，这项耗资2.15亿美元的翻新工程就是这个城市送给市政厅大楼“最好的生日礼物”。
bù lǐ sī bān shì zhǎng gé léi è mǔ . kuā kè shuō , zhè xiàng hào zī èr diǎn yī wǔ yì měi yuán de fān xīn gōng chéng jiù shì zhè ge chéng shì sòng gěi shì zhèng tīng dà lóu " zuì hǎo de shēng rì lǐ wù " 。
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3.
Sometimes I said the words out of context to see if by deflection, some quirk of physics, the meaning would suddenly come to me.
有时，我割裂地来说这些词，看看会不会通过偏离，通过某种物理的突然扭曲，我会突然想出其中的意义。
yǒu shí , wǒ gē liè de lái shuō zhè xiē cí , kàn kan huì bu huì tōng guò piān lí , tōng guò mǒu zhǒng wù lǐ de tū rán niǔ qū , wǒ huì tū rán xiǎng chū qí zhōng de yì yì 。
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4.
Even if the Greenstein and Forman study is just a quirk, which I suspect is not the case, it still points to an interesting issue.
即使格林斯坦和福尔曼的研究只是个异常现象（我觉得事实并非如此），它仍然指出了一个有趣的问题。
jí shǐ gé lín sī tǎn hé fú ěr màn de yán jiū zhǐ shì gè yì cháng xiàn xiàng ( wǒ jué de shì shí bìng fēi rú cǐ ) , tā réng rán zhǐ chū le yī gè yǒu qù de wèn tí 。
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5.
The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.
同样不合理的怪癖，正在美国房地产市场出现。
tóng yàng bù hé lǐ de guài pǐ , zhèng zài měi guó fáng dì chǎn shì chǎng chū xiàn 。
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6.
Everything from the moment they cross their arms to the quirk of their eyebrow, your characters are expressing themselves to you.
任何动作，从手臂交叉到拧起眉头，你的人物都在表达他们自己。
rèn hé dòng zuò , cóng shǒu bì jiāo chā dào nǐng qǐ méi tóu , nǐ de rén wù dōu zài biǎo dá tā men zì jǐ 。
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7.
Despite the underlying inflation risks, a statistical quirk may push core inflation down in the coming months.
尽管有着潜在的通胀风险，一个统计特性可能降低将来几个月的核心通胀率。
jǐn guǎn yǒu zhe qián zài de tōng zhàng fēng xiǎn , yī gè tǒng jì tè xìng kě néng jiàng dī jiāng lái jǐ gè yuè de hé xīn tōng zhàng lǜ 。
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8.
Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.
农业专家们也表示，这样罕见的情况实则是大自然的一种变异，如果母鸡在生蛋时受到惊吓，就可能产下异常的鸡蛋。
nóng yè zhuān jiā men yě biǎo shì , zhè yàng hǎn jiàn de qíng kuàng shí zé shì dà zì rán de yī zhǒng biàn yì , rú guǒ mǔ jī zài shēng dàn shí shòu dào jīng xià , jiù kě néng chǎn xià yì cháng de jī dàn 。
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9.
He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife Mrs. Smith.
他很怪，把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。
tā hěn guài , bǎ zì jǐ de qī zi chēng zuò shǐ mì sī fū rén 。
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10.
"She fell and landed on her backside, " said Courtney Mikolaj of the Quirk Law Firm in Ventura, California, which is representing her.
“她摔倒并且是背部着地，”加利福尼亚凡吐拉市快客法律公司的米可拉伊表示，是她的代表律师。
" tā shuāi dǎo bìng qiě shì bèi bù zháo dì , " jiā lì fú ní yà fán tǔ lā shì kuài kè fǎ lǜ gōng sī de mǐ kě lā yī biǎo shì , shì tā de dài biǎo lǜ shī 。
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