quirk
US /kwə:k/
・UK /kwɜ:k/
B2 中上級TOEIC
n.名詞変な癖
One of my husband's quirks is that whenever he needs to concentrate, he sings quietly to himself
n.名詞偶然
This is a strange quirk of the language that we can't explain
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【恋愛】「運命の人」なんていない？！現代の恋愛観の問題点とは？
- 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
破壊と失望を引き起こす可能性のあるもう一つの信念は、運命の人の概念だ。
- 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,
破壊と失望を引き起こす可能性のあるもう一つの信念は、運命の人の概念だ。
アダムス・ファミリーの闇に包まれた真実トップ10 (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.
ジョン・アスティンのスーツのポケットはアスベストで裏打ちされていた ゴメス・アダムスのもうひとつの癖は葉巻を好んで吸うことで、灰皿に消そうとしなかった。
- Another quirk of Gomez Addams was his penchant for cigars, which he never bothered to put out in an ashtray.
これは何よりもまず火災の危険性があるため、小道具部門はアスティンのスーツのポケットにアスベストを敷き詰め、キャラクターの癖を改善した。
10の誤解を解説：英語学習 (10 Misconceptions Rundown : Learn English)
- the two words into one, but it’s not really a new word, just a quirk of grammar.
二つの単語を一つにしただけで、新しい単語ではなく、文法のクセがあるだけです。
- But it's not really a new word, just a quirk of grammar.
二つの単語を一つにしただけで、新しい単語ではなく、文法のクセがあるだけです。
コモンウェルス事務総長パトリシア・スコットランド氏：CNBCインタビュー (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.
そして、もし今日、これを再現しようとしても、おそらくできないでしょう。歴史の偶然ですから。
- But it's a quirk of history that so many countries now are lining up to join.
しかし、多くの国が参加するために列をなしているのは、歴史の偶然なのです。
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- It's a minor quirk, but it's pretty annoying, and it's one of my pet peeves.
少なくともこのテストによれば、かなりいい感じだ。
- It's a minor quirk, but it's pretty annoying.
些細な癖だが、かなり煩わしい。
送られなかった手紙の秘められた力 (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.
メンタルヘルスの一般的な原則は、表現が乏しければ乏しいほど体調が悪くなるというものだ。怒りや悲しみや恐怖を押し殺さなければならないとき、不眠、被害妄想、苦味、消化不良といった二次的な症状が現れ始める。しかし、問題はしばしば機会の問題である。理屈の上ではいろいろなことを言ったり感じたりする準備ができていても、外側の状況が自由な表現を非常に妨げていることがある。もしかしたら、本当に何かを言いたい相手は死んでいるかもしれないし、同じように、気が散っていたり、壊れやすかったり、怖かったりするかもしれない。そのよう
- But this is to miss out on an unexpected quirk of our psyches.
天文学は危機にある…そしてそれは信じられないほどエキサイティングだ (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.
これは、私たちの限られた宇宙の眺めが、全体を公平に代表していることを意味するため、非常に重要です。
- Everything we see might just be local weirdness, a cosmic quirk that doesn't tell us the actual story of the universe.
私たちが目にするすべては、単なる局所的な奇妙さ、宇宙の本当の物語を教えてくれない宇宙の特異点にすぎないかもしれません。
引きこもりを愛する人々の心理 (The Psychology of People Who Love Staying At Home)
- For many people, staying home isn't a personality quirk.
家にいることを好む人には、いくつかの思い込みがつきまとう傾向があります。
- For many people, staying home isn't a personality quirk.
多くの人にとって、家にいることは性格的な癖ではありません。
