strange bird

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名词

strange bird (复数 strange birds)

1. 怪人 （性格乖僻或行为怪异的人）
   • 1987, Karen Stabiner, "Putting her Heart through the Hoop," New York Times, 14 June (retrieved 29 July 2010):

     Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game.

   • 1992, Kaye Gibbons, "My Mother, Literature, and a Life Split Neatly into Two Halves," in Janet Sternburg (ed.), The Writer on Her Work, vol. 2, ISBN 9780393308679, p. 56:

     I never saw him, but Jackie Langley told me Kerouac was a strange bird, stayed drunk, talked crazy, brooded.

   • 2003, Donald E. Westlake, Put a Lid on It, →ISBN，第 57 页:

     "You're a strange bird, Meehan," Leroy told him. "When you find out whose house you're in, call me back."

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   • 2004, Tony K. Stewart, Fabulous Females and Peerless Pīrs: Tales of mad adventure in old Bengal, Oxford, →ISBN，第 67 页:

     In this land, too, there dwelled a young man who was a fowler, but a bit of a strange bird he was, for he only captured his birds, preferring not to slaughter them.

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近义词

• misfit、oddball、odd duck、odd one out、queer fish、odd bird、queer duck，见Thesaurus:strange person

参见

• rare bird