You will hear more about the oddities of English spelling in a minute.

一分钟后，你会听到更多关于英语拼写奇怪之处。

As a result, Britain is losing out to other countries in the contest for talent—an oddity, given how often the prime minister bangs on about the global race.

尽管英国首相多次强调全球竞争，可英国却在才竞争上输给了其他国家，多么令诧异结果。

He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out. There is something very pompous in his stile.

“我看他一定是个古怪，”她说。“我真弄不懂他。他文笔似乎有些浮夸。

This deficit of days, this calendar craziness, this oddity of the annum, like so much of modern culture, is the Romans’ fault.

这个差了几天月份在日历中，是最疯狂一个月，也是一年中最古怪一个月，就像很多前沿文化一样，都是罗杰作。

While this is an unusual local oddity, here is a map showing the different daylight saving and time zone rules in all their complicated glory – it’s a huge mess and constantly needs updating as countries change their laws.

而这只是九牛一毛。这地图展示了不同夏时制和时区规，得无以附加，而这团乱麻还要常常根据各国法律变化来进行更新。

Like it was an oddity. - That's right, good, that's good.

他才会觉得很奇怪 -是 没错 很好。

But his oddities are just as famous as his achievements.

但他怪癖和他成就一样出名。

And who better to explain human oddities than Sigmund Freud?

还有谁能比西格蒙德·弗洛伊德更能解释类古怪呢？

We cannot be alone in our oddities.

我们不能独自面对自己怪异。

And the source of the heat is another oddity of this strange planet.

热源是这颗奇怪行星另一个反常之处。

" Neville is not an idiot and Luna is not an oddity! " said Hermione.

“纳威不是白痴，卢娜也不是疯子！”赫敏说。

Before we turn the page on this year a look at space oddities 2021.

在我们翻开今年新一页之前，先来看看2021太空奇怪现象。

And if, when you were working with strings in Swift 3, you may have noticed some oddities like this just kind of leaving you wondering, what is going on?

你在 Swift 3 中处理字符串时候应该注意到过这样怪事，你会想这是怎么回事？

Imagine yourself in a museum filled with the world's oddities.

想象下，你在一个陈放着世界各地文物珍品博物馆里。

Some of these oddities arise from mere coincidence.

有些一反常规用法仅仅是因为巧合。

And people look at that as an oddity.

们觉得这样子很奇怪。

Japan's cultural oddities and language barriers ultimately deter many overseas companies considering a move.

日本文化古怪之处和语言障碍最终阻止了许多考虑搬迁海外公司。

So strange that, after seeing Braque's painting, " Houses at L'Estaque, " art critic Louis Vauxcelles referred to it as " bizarreries cubiques" (cubic oddities), unaware that he had actually named the movement.

如此奇怪，以至于在看到布拉克画作《埃斯塔克房屋》之后， 艺术评论家路易斯·沃克斯勒斯将其称为“怪异立体派”（立体怪异），却没有意识到他实际上是为这一运动命名。

Manono is a particular linguistic oddity, since it uses only tone to differentiate an affirmative from a negative—a phenomenon the ELA has since discovered applies to all verbs in Mahongwe.

从语言学角度上看，Manono这个词是个独特怪胎，因为它只用声调来区分肯定和否定——濒危语言联盟已经发现这个现象适用于宏威语中所有动词。

The latest oddity is the growing chorus of complaints in America about a shortage oflabour, even though 8m fewer people are in work today than before covid-19 struck.

最近一个奇怪之处是，尽管美国就业口与新冠肺炎爆发前相比减少了800万，但对劳动力短缺抱怨却越来越多。