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

• 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。
• Celebrate the differences and the oddities of the world around you and you will become an active participant.
  你要为周遭的差异和奇遇而庆幸才对，你要学习如何做一个积极的参与者。
• As a unique genre, the legends of the Tang dynasty has three features: confluence of records of persons and records of oddities, self-consciousness and autonomy of creating subjects, and properties of several literary types.
  唐传奇作为一种独立的文学体裁，文本特征有三：一是志人志怪的合流融汇，二是创作主体的自觉自主，三是文备众体的品格属性。
• But there is an argument for looking at such oddities as portents for the future.
  但是，有理由将这样怪异之事视为未来走向的征兆。
• 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。
• That might encourage another classic mistake: not noticing and exploring "irrelevant" oddities.
  这可能也导致另一个典型错误：不能注意和探索“不相关的”奇怪现象。
• Only one explanation could account for all these oddities.
  只有一种解释能说清这一切奇怪的现象。
• 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。
• Similar oddities exist in the commercial sector.
  工商界同样存在类似问题。
• They display their oddities because it has never struck them that they are odd.
  他们会表露他们古怪的一面，因为他们从来就没有觉得有何古怪。