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

• At other companies, however, oddball work setups are considered an advantage in the drive for efficiency.
  不过，也有些公司把非常规工作制视为提高效率的一种优势。
• 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。
• 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？
• Why did Cruella throw oddball away?
  为什么黑心娜娜把奇球扔掉了？
• 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。
• 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。
• His brother is a real oddball.
  他的兄弟真是一个怪人。
• 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？
• 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