quirk

noun

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
   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。

1. N-COUNT (偶然发生的)奇事，趣事
   A quirk is something unusual or interesting that happens by chance.
   1. 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。
   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。
2. N-COUNT 怪癖;古怪的性格
   A quirk is a habit or aspect of a person's character which is odd or unusual.
   1. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
      布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。

1. 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。
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. Brown was fascinated by people's quirks and foibles.
   布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
4. Quirk# 2: Should the dialog be displayed?
   状况2：是否应该显示对话？
5. I also discovered that XFS has a singular performance quirk: it doesn't delete files very quickly; it was easily bested by both ReiserFS and ext3 in this area.
   我还发现XFS有一个单点性能缺陷：它删除文件不是很快；在这一方面，ReiserFS和ext3轻易地胜过了它。
6. The second quirk is that you cannot pass arbitrary shell commands in.
   第二种状况是您不能传入任意shell命令。
7. Ironically, another quirk comes to our help here.
   实际上，另外一个因素在这里提供了帮助。
8. The "*" is a historical quirk.
   是一个历史怪象。
9. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that could never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension.
   不过，我的父母，他们都来自贫穷的背景，没有任何一人上过大学，坚持认为我过度的想象力是一个令人惊讶的个人怪癖，根本不足以让我支付按揭，或者取得足够的养老金。
10. An individual characteristic; a quirk.
    独特性，特色；特殊的东西；怪癖。
11. Now, again, this is not some sort of bizarre quirk of a humorous god.
    现在，又一次，这不是幽默的上帝开的古怪玩笑。
12. 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。
13. The standard theory of bad moods is rooted in a psychological quirk known as ego depletion.
    有关坏情绪的标准理论源于心理学上的“自我损耗”。
14. The carving craze is the grave of safe, carefree, efficient skiing, an irrational fantasy, a binding fashion, a quirk bent on putting basic physics to shame!
    对刻滑的狂热，葬送了滑雪的安全性、娱乐性和舒适性，是一个失去理性的白日梦，一个伪装的时髦，一个让基础物理学感到羞愧的怪癖。
15. 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。
16. The miserable economic track record is, in part, a quirk of timing.
    这一糟糕的经济周期运行轨迹，部分来说与时间很巧合。
17. That quirk dates back to the time when mammals began to evolve.
    而这一现象是从进化哺乳动物的时候才开始出现转折了。
18. Some critics have questioned whether the linkage between income inequality and worse health is merely a mathematical quirk.
    有些批评者质疑，收入不均与健康情况不良之间的关联，可能只是数学的怪异表现。
19. She prefers to see Edward's fascination with Bella as a strange quirk& and a transitory one at that.
    她更情愿把爱德华对贝拉的迷恋看成是他的一个怪癖&而且还应只是暂时的。
20. Asset managers have never faced such stiff competition, says Ben Phillips, partner of Casey Quirk, a US consultancy.
    美国咨询公司CaseyQuirk的合伙人本菲利普斯（BenPhillips）表示，资产管理公司从未面对过如此激烈的竞争。
21. It concludes that despite a quirk here and there, the latest version of Google Desktop is full of improvements that make a very good thing even better.
    它的结论是，尽管俏皮话这里和那里，最新版本的谷歌桌面是全面的改进，使一个很好的事情做得更好。
22. On the whole, I really enjoyed this space for the pure quirk and whimsy of it.
    从整体上来说，我真的非常享受这个纯净同时充满新奇理念的空间。
23. This is the result of a deliberate plan by the Hong Kong regulator rather than a quirk of fate.
    这是香港监管机构有意而为的结果，并非天意如此。
24. 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。
25. By some quirk of fate the two of us were on the same train.
    出于命运安排，我们两人乘上了同一列火车。
26. Just about every banker has some quirk, says Charles Nelson, director of the Baron Group merchant bank.
    差不多每个银行家都有些怪癖，BaronGroup商业银行总监查尔斯•尼尔森（CharlesNelson）说。
27. Others among us, myself included, thought it just an odd quirk.
    包括我在内的其他人则认为这只是一种怪癖。
28. What do you think is 6's biggest unknown ( hidden?) quirk ( weird habit)?
    你认为6最大的不为人知的怪癖是什么？
29. One solution to these two problems was used in a study by Muller at al. ( 2003) published in Nature which relies on a quirk of the brain's electrical response to certain visual stimuli.
    对这两个问题的一个解答是在《自然》杂志上发表的Mulleratal。（2003）的一份研究报告中采用。它依靠于对某些视觉刺激大脑做出的一种奇特电反应。
30. An added quirk is that your screen saver is also set to make a slideshow of these pictures.
    你也可以将你的屏幕保护设置为这些图片的幻灯片形式。

noun

1. a narrow groove beside a beading

2. a strange attitude or habit

   Synonym:    oddityqueernessquirkinesscrotchet

verb

1. twist or curve abruptly
   1. She quirked her head in a peculiar way