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Quirkiness is the unusual quality itself — the oddness that makes a person, a place, or a story interesting rather than ordinary. If quirky is the adjective, quirkiness is the name of that flavour. People talk about the quirkiness of a film, a neighbourhood, a shop, or someone’s humour. In magazines and everyday talk it is usually a compliment, or at least fond: we kept going back because of its quirkiness. It is not a harsh word like madness, and it is not as heavy as eccentricity, which can sound like a judgement on a whole life. Though actually, one person’s quirkiness is another person’s mess — the word puts a kind frame around behaviour that is simply not standard. You will hear it more in reviews and friendly description than in formal reports.
古里古怪(的特質/風格)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
quirkinessnoun
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The state of being quirky.
- Your quirkiness is so endearing.
- Chacombe: The one-bedroomed holiday home built into the mouth of the Great Central Railway tunnel, on the former Banbury-Northampton route, has won a number of awards for its quirkiness.
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A specific quirky aspect of a person or thing.
- "There are certain quirkinesses, but he is a very good neighbor."
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。