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 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。
• We got real used to number oddities like that.
  我们很习惯那些数字了。
• 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。
• Similar oddities exist in the commercial sector.
  工商界同样存在类似问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• Of course, we do not a priori preclude the existence of other types of errors or oddities that pertain to more than just isolated readings.
  当然，我们不会先验地排除其他类型错误或异常（不是只与单个读数相关的）的存在。
• 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。
• 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。