Oddity

(noun.) a strange attitude or habit.

(noun.) eccentricity that is not easily explained.

校对:拉弗尔斯

• It's all of a piece with Casaubon's oddity. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I may be a bit of an oddity in point of temper, but this is my temper--I can't let anybody have entirely their own way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mr. Bumble sat himself down; quite confounded by the oddity of Mr. Grimwig's manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• But you are such a little oddity! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The circulation, sir,' returned Bitzer, smiling at the oddity of the question, 'couldn't be carried on without one. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Why, heaven save us, man, exclaimed my guardian, surprised into his old oddity and vehemence, you talk of yourself as if you were somebody else! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He must be an oddity, I think, said she. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• There's an oddity in things, now. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Mrs. Welland agreed, as if allowing for an inherited oddity; and after that the question of Newland's unemployment was tacitly dropped. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But there are oddities in things, continued Mr. Brooke, whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Those words express another of his incomprehensible oddities. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Certainly, the exemplary Mrs. Garth had her droll aspects, but her character sustained her oddities, as a very fine wine sustains a flavor of skin. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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