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。
The occurrence of Mr Lee Kuan Yew is something of an oddity.
李光耀的出现是个异数。
He must be an oddity, I think, said she.
我看他一定是个古怪人，她说。
There is also an oddity in this renewed emphasis on quantitative easing.
此外，市场再度关注定量宽松颇为怪异。
Its oddity and complexity makes its communicating functions weaken and is thus on the brink of extinction.
它的奇异和复杂，使得交际功能大为减弱，濒于消亡。
While this is an unusual local oddity, here is a map showing the different daylight saving and time zone rules in all their complicated glory.
尽管这是个不正常的当地怪事，这是一张地图，从他们繁复的丰功伟业之中，展示出不同的日光节约和时区规范。
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。
They were an odd crowd who treasured their oddity.
他们是一群怪人，并以怪为荣。
Losing my hair made me feel an oddity
脱发使我觉得自己是个怪人。
Running JavaScript on the server is not some oddity.
在服务器端运行JavaScript并不是什么怪事。