oddball

英 [ˈɒdbɔːl]

美 [ˈɑːdbɔːl]

n.  行为古怪者; 反常者; 怪人
adj.  古怪的

复数：oddballs　

BNC.25359 / COCA.18761

牛津词典

noun

• 行为古怪者；反常者；怪人
  a person who behaves in a strange or unusual way

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 行为古怪的人；怪人
  If you refer to someone as anoddball, you think they behave in a strange way.
  1. His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
     吉姆的父母也认为他有些古怪。
  2. Oddballis also an adjective.
     
  3. I came from a family that was decidedly oddball you know.
     你要知道，我的家人个个古怪得紧。

英英释义

noun

• a person with an unusual or odd personality
  Synonym:eccentriceccentric personflakegeek

双语例句

• Why did Cruella throw oddball away?
  为什么黑心娜娜把奇球扔掉了？
• It acted as a means of seeing who this funny, oddball philosopher really was, and who I needed to become.
  它成为一种途径，通过它能发现这个可笑而古怪的哲学家的真正面目，以及我将要成为的那种人。
• Is he some kind of an oddball here?
  他是不是有点怪癖？
• The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals& a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.
  当她开始起草关于准晶体的论文时，自称漫画迷的她很快意识到她可以通过绘图的方式更好的讲解这些古怪的化合物。准晶体是一种从普通晶体分化出来的子晶体。
• I'm definitely the oddball here, I'm the outcast.
  在这里我肯定是个古怪的人，是个被遗弃的人。
• But because of a computer foulup, Greenwich Village police didn't believe Daniel Valencia and nearly wrote him off as another oddball.
  可是由于电脑错误，格林威治村警方不相信瓦伦西亚，几乎将他视为又一个神经病。
• Hospice and University are also oddball in this sense, but the effect that they produce, and the cost of the building, are just not enough to make them serious game disturbances.
  从这点看收容所和大学也是古怪建筑，但是其产生的作用和建造成本不足以导致严重的游戏变化。
• Put those words in a sentence or form your own associations to them, no matter how oddball they may seem.
  尽管可能很古怪，但用这些单词造句或形成你对他们的独特联想却是一种很好的记忆方法。
• Michael mumford, a psychology professor at the University of Oklahoma who specializes in talent assessment, said that this sort of test was effective, but he cautioned that companies should not rely on oddball factors, even if they seemed to correlate to good performance.
  俄克拉荷马大学的心理学教授迈克专门研究如何寻觅合适人才，他指出此类测验是有效的，但是也警告说公司不能依赖不常用的衡量标准，虽然看起来同优秀业绩有关。
• Why was oddball so happy that day?
  为什么奇球那天特别开心？