oddity

英 [ˈɒdəti]

美 [ˈɑːdəti]

n. 古怪反常的人(或事物); 怪现象; 古怪; 怪异; 反常

复数：oddities　

Collins.1 / BNC.13977 / COCA.13984

牛津词典

noun

古怪反常的人（或事物）；怪现象
a person or thing that is strange or unusual
1. The book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling.
  这本书专讲语法和拼写方面的某些不规则现象。
古怪；怪异；反常
the quality of being strange or unusual
1. She suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
  她突然意识到自己的话很奇怪，脸一下子红了。

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

noun

something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
Synonym:curiocuriosityoddmentpeculiarityrarity
a strange attitude or habit
Synonym:queernessquirkquirkinesscrotchet
eccentricity that is not easily explained
Synonym:oddness

A career woman is still regarded as something of an oddity.
职业妇女仍然多少被认为有点怪。
Another oddity is in junk bonds.
另一件怪事是垃圾债券。
Here is the oddity: if you ask Schwab what is happening to the conference business now, it does not seem to have been seriously disrupted at all. Far from it.
奇怪的是：如果你问施瓦布，会议业现在正在发生什么事情，你会发现这个行业似乎根本没有被严重颠覆&远远谈不上。
He must be an oddity, I think, said she.
我看他一定是个古怪人，她说。
Analysts on the conference call also pounced on another oddity.
参加上述电话会议的分析师们还在追问另一件怪事。
That's not the only oddity.
不光是这个不对劲。
Another little oddity exists with the Rails'use of singular and plural names for various things.
另一个稍微古怪的方面是，Rails为不同的内容使用单数和复数的名称。
Another oddity has been the recent performance of gold.
另外一件出奇的事是最近黄金的表现。
Losing my hair made me feel an oddity
脱发使我觉得自己是个怪人。
The first motorcycle was a steam powered oddity built by Sylvester Roper in1869.
第一摩托车蒸汽动力古怪建造的西尔维斯特罗佩尔于1869年。