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Growing up in the Iowa farm belt, Dr. Loren Olson always thought of himself as "heterosexual, with a little quirk. "

罗伦·欧森医生生长在爱荷华州的农业区，一直以来总是觉得自己是“带有一点点怪癖的异性恋者”。

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said the $215 million make over was "the best birthday present" the city could give its centrepiece.

布里斯班市长格雷厄姆.夸克说，这项耗资2.15亿美元的翻新工程就是这个城市送给市政厅大楼“最好的生日礼物”。

Sometimes I said the words out of context to see if by deflection, some quirk of physics, the meaning would suddenly come to me.

有时，我割裂地来说这些词，看看会不会通过偏离，通过某种物理的突然扭曲，我会突然想出其中的意义。

Even if the Greenstein and Forman study is just a quirk, which I suspect is not the case, it still points to an interesting issue.

即使格林斯坦和福尔曼的研究只是个异常现象（我觉得事实并非如此），它仍然指出了一个有趣的问题。

The same irrational quirk is now playing out in the U. S. housing market.

同样不合理的怪癖，正在美国房地产市场出现。

Everything from the moment they cross their arms to the quirk of their eyebrow, your characters are expressing themselves to you.

任何动作，从手臂交叉到拧起眉头，你的人物都在表达他们自己。

Despite the underlying inflation risks, a statistical quirk may push core inflation down in the coming months.

尽管有着潜在的通胀风险，一个统计特性可能降低将来几个月的核心通胀率。

Quirk of the parliamentary system though it may be, Italian politics appears to be pretty forgiving to those with economic black marks.

尽管意大利的议会可能富于奇思怪想，不过意大利的政治似乎相当宽容，不计较经济污点。

Experts say the rare phenomenon is just a quirk of nature and can occur if the chicken receives a shock during egg production.

农业专家们也表示，这样罕见的情况实则是大自然的一种变异，如果母鸡在生蛋时受到惊吓，就可能产下异常的鸡蛋。

He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife Mrs. Smith.

他很怪，把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。

But the loss of such a distinctive design quirk means the Impreza loses some of its character.

但是，失去这样一位与众不同的设计夸克是指豹失去它的一些性质。

"She fell and landed on her backside, " said Courtney Mikolaj of the Quirk Law Firm in Ventura, California, which is representing her.

“她摔倒并且是背部着地，”加利福尼亚凡吐拉市快客法律公司的米可拉伊表示，是她的代表律师。

In more than 20 years of research, she's discovered that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk.

经过20多年的研究，德韦克认为心态并不是一个微不足道的性格特征。

The standard theory of bad moods is rooted in a psychological quirk known as ego depletion.

有关坏情绪的标准理论源于心理学上的“自我损耗”。

In an odd quirk, new research suggests the commission's plans could benefit those countries most opposed to it.

但出人意料的是，新研究表明委员会的计划将使那些反对呼声最高的国家获益。

In a revealing quirk of the English language, to ask the question is to level an accusation at the same time.

在英语里某个明显的讽语，在设问之时就提出了指责。

The next day I was reminded of another little French cultural quirk: their English really isn't that good.

第二天的事让我想起了法国文化中的另一点怪异之处———他们的英文真是不怎么样。

Executive quirk: Raised the legs of his desk to let him work and use his computer standing up.

管理怪癖：提高办公桌脚使得他可以站着办公和使用电脑。

In this quirk of the human mind, one powerful impression spills over onto our other judgments of a situation.

这是人类一种奇怪的思维习惯，我们会把对事物某一方面产生的强烈印象套用在对该事物其他方面的评价中。

Either way, this looks to be a quirk of biology, not a concertedevolution by a plant disease to infect animals.

无论如何，这看起来都是生物学上的一个巧合，而不是植物疾病传染给动物的必然演化过程。