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单词 oddity
释义
oddityodd‧i‧ty /ˈɒdəti $ ˈɑː-/ noun (plural oddities) Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A white buffalo is an animal oddity.
  • The oddity of the situation didn't seem to bother her at all.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But, as with Herczeg s letter to the Reader, it is the last sentence that is the real oddity.
  • Cairns and co focus on the oddities of human nature with a certain morbid curiosity.
  • Horton was considered an oddity by most eastern cognoscenti, and his school and company at best a noble experiment.
  • The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art.
  • Their very oddity deterred him from doing so.
  • There are other examples of cultural evolution in birds and monkeys, but these are just interesting oddities.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounoddityadjectiveoddadverboddly
1[countable] a strange or unusual person or thing:  In a class of 120 students there were four women including myself, and I still felt rather an oddity.2[countable, uncountable] a strange quality in someone or something:  60s fashions that are remembered for their oddity
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