eccentric
eccentric 英 [ɪkˈsentrɪk] 美 [ɪkˈsɛntrɪk, ɛk-]
adj. 古怪的，反常的 n. 古怪的人
名词复数:eccentrics
- You're most likely to encounter the adjective eccentric in a description of an unusual or quirky person — like a scatterbrained aunt who leaves her life savings to her cat.
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- adj. 古怪的，反常的
- n. 古怪的人
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1. eccentric behaviour，eccentric clothes
古怪的行为；奇装异服
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2. an eccentric aunt
怪僻的大婶
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3. Most people considered him a harmless eccentric.
多数人都认为他是一个无伤大雅的怪人。
- eccentric (adj.) 1550s, from Middle French eccentrique and directly from Medieval Latin eccentricus (noun and adjective; see eccentric (n.)). Of persons, figurative sense of "odd, whimsical" first recorded 1620s. "Eccentric is applied to acts which are the effects of tastes, prejudices, judgments, etc., not merely different from those of ordinary people, but largely unaccountable and often irregular ..." [Century Dictionary].
- eccentric (n.) early 15c., "eccentric circle or orbit," originally a term in Ptolemaic astronomy, "circle or orbit not having the Earth precisely at its center," from Middle French eccentrique and directly from Medieval Latin eccentricus (noun and adjective), from Greek ekkentros "out of the center" (as opposed to concentric), from ek "out" (see ex-) + kentron "center" (see center (n.)). Meaning "odd or whimsical person" is attested by 1817 (S.W. Ryley, "The Itinerant, or Memoirs of an Actor").
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