| 正面 | 12496.quirk 英 [kwɜːk]美 [kwɝk]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. quir- => guir- => guai- (怪) + r + k (客) => 怪客，怪儿客 => 有怪癖和古怪性格或行为的人。2. 谐音“怪客、怪儿客”。3. queer <====> quirk.4. IE浏览器的怪异模式。n. 怪癖；急转；借口n. (Quirk)人名；(英)夸克 例句： 1. By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.真是天缘奇遇，他们住进了同一家旅馆。 quirk 怪癖，怪异词源不详，可能来自queer 的强化形式，引申词义怪癖，怪异。-k,表强调，比较hear,hark. quirk (n.)1560s, "quibble, evasion," of unknown origin, perhaps connected to German quer (see queer (adj.)) via notion of twisting and slanting; but its earliest appearance in western England dialect seems to argue against this source. Perhaps originally a technical term for a twist or flourish in weaving. Sense of "peculiarity" is c. 1600." |