Eccentricity

(noun.) strange and unconventional behavior.

(noun.) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path.

(noun.) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; 'a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity'.

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• Your eccentricity and conceit touch the verge of frenzy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Caligula (37 to 41 A.D.) was insane, but the empire carried on during four years of eccentricity at its head. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Differences of temperature and density of the parts of the original mass account for the eccentricity of orbits, and deviations fro m the plane of the equator. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Darwin maintained that it is possible to make out a kind of cycle between greatest and least eccentricity of about 200,000 years. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• On August 31 had appeared Leverrier's third paper, in which were stated the new planet's orbit, mass, distance from the sun, eccentricity, and l ongitude. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Not to revert again to that little eccentricity which I mentioned just now, I doubt if you take air and exercise enough, Frederick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A man who does that is always charged with eccentricity, inconsistency, and that kind of thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Eccentricities of genius, Sam,' said Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Emanuel's crotchets and eccentricities! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We astonished them with such eccentricities of dress as we could muster. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Pesca was one of her especial favourites and his wildest eccentricities were always pardonable in her eyes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It seems at times as if our capacity for appreciating originality were absorbed in the trivial eccentricities of fads and fashions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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