quirk
US /kwə:k/
・UK /kwɜ:k/
B2 中高級多益
n.名詞怪癖；特有的習慣或舉動
One of my husband's quirks is that whenever he needs to concentrate, he sings quietly to himself
n.名詞俏皮話
This is a strange quirk of the language that we can't explain
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阿達一族你不知道的10個最黑暗祕密！ (Top 10 Darkest Things You Didn't Know About the Addams Family)
- John Astin's suit pockets were lined with asbestos Another quirk of Gomez Adams was his penchant for cigars, which he never bothered to put out in an ashtray.
約翰-阿斯廷的西裝口袋內襯石棉 戈麥斯-亞當斯的另一個怪癖是嗜好雪茄，他從不捨得把雪茄熄滅在菸灰缸裡。
- Another quirk of Gomez Addams was his penchant for cigars, which he never bothered to put out in an ashtray.
由於這首先是一種火災隱患，道具部門在阿斯廷的西裝口袋裡鋪上了石棉，以幫助他養成這個角色的習慣。
關於現代愛情的問題 (The Problem With Modern Love)
- One person who is perfect for us, who will always understand our every need and impulse, who will cater to our every quirk and neuroses, and
另一個可能導致毀滅和失望的信念是 "唯一 "的概念。
- One person who is perfect for us, who will always understand our every need and impulse, who will cater to our every quirk and neuroses,
另一個可能導致毀滅和失望的信念是 "唯一 "的概念。
10 大英文學習迷思破解！ (10 Misconceptions Rundown : Learn English)
- the two words into one, but it’s not really a new word, just a quirk of grammar.
兩個詞合二為一，但這並不是一個新詞，只是文法上的一個怪癖。
- But it's not really a new word, just a quirk of grammar.
兩個詞合二為一，但這並不是一個新詞，只是文法上的一個怪癖。
英聯邦祕書長 Patricia Scotland：CNBC 深度對談！ (Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland: The CNBC Conversation)
- And I'm sure if we tried to recreate it today, we probably couldn't because it's a quirk of history.
我敢肯定，如果我們今天試圖重建它，大概辦不到，因為這是歷史的巧合。
- But it's a quirk of history that so many countries now are lining up to join.
但正是這個歷史的巧合，讓這麼多國家現在都爭相加入。
未寄出信件的祕密力量！ (The Secret Power of Unsent Letters)
- A general principle of mental health is that the less we are able to express, the more unwell we get. It's when we have to stifle our rage, sadness or fear that we start to develop secondary symptoms – sleeplessness, paranoia, bitterness, poor digestion – just as our spirits can lighten and our horizons expand, once we can find a way to lend outward form to our pains. However, the problem is often one of occasions. We may in theory be ready to say and feel all sorts of things, but our outward circumstances may be highly unconducive to free expression. Perhaps the person we'd really like to say something to is dead, or they may, just as problematically, be distracted, fragile or frightening. We then make the error of imagining that there can be no point in speaking and on this basis stifle our emotions to our increasing cost. But this is to miss out on an unexpected quirk of our psyches. What may matter most in many situations is not, as we might think, that the person we need to speak to is actually able to hear what we have to say, but rather that we have a proper, in-depth chance to say it anyway. There can be as much benefit in shouting our feelings to a deserted beach, a large pillow or an empty chair as there would in having a lengthy dialogue with an intimidating parent or an obtuse lover. The best technique in this tradition may be to write a letter that we never send, either because the person in question is no longer alive or because we just have no expectation that what we could write would remotely be understood. The discipline of writing a long letter has the effect of galvanising our hitherto confused and disparate emotions and forces our intelligence to lay out our story in a systematic and emotionally logical way. As we write, we turn what might have been an inchoate sob into something intelligible, plausible, compassion-inducing and moving. We go from I hate you so much or why why why to a full, leisurely recap of how we felt, why we suffered and what the legacy of our injury has been. We can be like a grown-up lawyer making a case in a courtroom of adults on behalf of a frightened or muddled child. We can take our absent reader into the details of a story that they refuse to see existed and may have done their best to silence. We are giving ourselves an opportunity to feel legitimate in our own eyes. We may realise that the real audience we needed all along was ourselves. We suffer unnecessarily when we think that the only form of catharsis is one that can unfold in the physical presence of a person who damaged us. Our freedom is fortunately far greater than this, because the real sceptic we need to win over and explain our full story to is chiefly and crucially always ourselves.
心理健康的一個普遍原則是，我們越不善於表達，我們就越不健康。當我們不得不壓抑自己的憤怒、悲傷或恐懼時，我們就會開始出現繼發性症狀--失眠、多疑、苦悶、消化不良--而一旦我們能夠找到一種方法，將我們的痛苦以外顯的形式表現出來，我們的精神就會變得輕鬆，我們的視野就會變得開闊。然而，問題往往出在場合上。理論上，我們可能已經準備好說出和感受各種事情，但我們的外在環境可能非常不利於自由表達。也許我們真正想說的人已經死了，或者他們也可能心不在焉、脆弱或令人恐懼。於是，我們就會錯誤地認為說話沒有任何意義，並據此扼殺我們
- But this is to miss out on an unexpected quirk of our psyches.
天文學正處於危機之中…這實在太令人興奮了！ (Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting)
- Everything we see might just be local weirdness, a cosmic quirk that doesn't tell us the actual story of the universe.
這點很重要，因為這意味著我們有限的宇宙觀，可以代表整個宇宙。
- Everything we see might just be local weirdness, a cosmic quirk that doesn't tell us the actual story of the universe.
我們看到的一切可能只是局部的怪異，一個宇宙的怪癖，無法告訴我們宇宙的真實故事。
改變你的呼吸，改變你的人生！ (Change Your Breath, Change Your Life)
- Left nostril breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system through a fascinating anatomical quirk.
鎖骨敲擊之所以有效，是因為它能刺激迷走神經的皮支。
- The Sleep Switch Evening Wind Down Left nostril breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system through a fascinating anatomical quirk.
睡眠開關 晚間放鬆 左鼻孔呼吸通過一種奇妙的解剖學怪癖激活副交感神經系統。
