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。
• His brother is a real oddball.
  他的兄弟真是一个怪人。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our neighbor be a real oddball--he never talk to anyone
  我们的邻居真是一个怪胎&他从不跟任何人说话
• It was the right place for them, actually, the right kind of setting so I guess that made me sort of the oddball.
  那里是他们该待的地方，实际上这是一种正确的布置，我猜，这种想法可能会让我变成一个古怪的人。
• 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。
• The new boss is a bit of an oddball.
  新老板有点古怪。
• Oddball wears a beautiful ring on his tail.
  小怪在他的尾巴上戴了一枚漂亮的戒指。
• 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。