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

• She had a whole list of oddball phrases to describe her various states of mind.
  她有一系列古怪的用语来形容她不同的心境。
• Is he some kind of an oddball here?
  他是不是有点怪癖？
• 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。
• 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。
• It's all in service to the question: What does this oddball planet tell us about how the solar system, especially the rocky inner planets, evolved?
  所有涉及这项任务的人员都想问这样的问题：在关于太阳系，特别是内部为岩石的行星，是如何形成的这个问题上，这个古怪的星球将告诉我们什么呢？
• Jim is an oddball; he refuses to dress properly for formal occasions.
  吉姆是个怪人，他不愿穿着得体地去参加正式场合的活动。
• This provides more flexible form handling and slightly better performance than a pure Domino application, but may be considered oddball by pure-J2EE developers.
  这为表单处理提供了更多的灵活性，并且比纯粹的Domino应用程序具有更好的性能，但是很多纯粹的J2EE开发人员可能会认为这种方式非常奇怪。
• 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。
• 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。
• We have gotten so used to Beyonc é, it may be hard to grasp what an oddball she is, how different her approach to rhythm, melody and harmony are to those of previous generations.
  我们太习惯于碧昂斯的唱腔了，所以可能没有想过她其实是个多么古怪的歌手，她对节奏、旋律和和声的把握与之前几代音乐人是多么不同。