idiosyncrasies

英 [ˌɪdɪəˈsɪŋkrəsiz]

美 [ɪdioʊˈsɪnkrəˌsiz]

n.  (个人特有的)习性; 特征; 癖好
idiosyncrasy的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR (个人特有的)癖好，嗜好;(物品的)特色，特点
  If you talk about theidiosyncrasiesof someone or something, you are referring to their rather unusual habits or characteristics.
  1. Everyone has a few little idiosyncrasies...
     每个人都有点小嗜好。
  2. The bike has style, it has looks, it has its little idiosyncrasies...
     这辆自行车品质一流，外观漂亮，有一些细节之处与众不同。
  3. The book is a gem of Victorian idiosyncrasy.
     这本书展现了维多利亚时代特色的精华。

双语例句

• It is "lookism": the formation of one's opinion of another based entirely on their superficial attributes and aesthetically pleasing idiosyncrasies.
  这就是“外表歧视”：完全根据一个人的外在特征和美丑特性来对他人作出判断。
• Many of the phenomena we deal with in economics and business fall in between – the units of analysis are individualistic but also too numerous for their idiosyncrasies to be individually understood.
  而我们所研究的许多经济学和商学现象正好介于两者之间&分析的单位是个体的，但其数目过多，以至于无法理解每一个个体的特性。
• One of the idiosyncrasies of music history is the number of composers who flowered far from their native soil.
  音乐历史的特质之一就是那些在远离本土也能够盛名远播的作曲家的数量。
• In middle management, however, there are still local idiosyncrasies, For instance, a lot of Germans still put their photo on their CV, she says.
  但对中层管理职位来说，简历仍颇具本土色彩。譬如，很多德国人仍会把自己的照片贴在简历上。
• Whatever her idiosyncrasies, Angelina Jolie continues to captivate audiences with films such as Original Sin and Tomb Raider.
  不管如何标新立异，安吉丽娜·朱丽仍在《原罪》和《古墓丽影》等电影中继续对观众施展着无边魅力。
• In some cases, you want the same version of an application deployed everywhere, lest users be confused by inconsistent idiosyncrasies.
  在有些情况下，您希望在所有的地方都部署某个应用程序的相同版本，以免不一致的特性让用户感到困惑。
• One of her idiosyncrasies is whistling for her cats.
  吹口哨唤她的猫是她的癖好之一。
• Yet the idiosyncrasies of the eurozone should not distract us from the general nature of the fiscal crisis that is now afflicting most Western economies.
  不过，这场财政危机正折磨着多数西方经济体，欧元区的特性不应使我们忽视其一般性。
• One of her idiosyncrasies is keeping a pet dog.
  她的癖好之一是养狗。
• And I could sense all his idiosyncrasies.
  我能体会到他的性格。