offbeat

英 [ˌɒfˈbiːt]

美 [ˌɔːfˈbiːt]

adj.  不寻常的; 不落俗套的; 标新立异的

GRE

BNC.35050 / COCA.15164

牛津词典

adj.

• 不寻常的；不落俗套的；标新立异的
  different from what most people expect
  1. offbeat humour
     另类的幽默
  2. an offbeat approach to interviewing
     别开生面的采访

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不寻常的；非常规的；非正统的
  If you describe something or someone asoffbeat, you think that they are different from normal.
  1. She adores old, offbeat antiques.
     她非常喜欢那些稀奇古怪的老古董。
  2. ...a wickedly offbeat imagination.
     绝妙另类的想象力

英英释义

noun

• an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)
  Synonym:upbeat

adj

• informal terms
  Synonym:far-outkinkyquirkyway-out

双语例句

• Piano master Lang Lang performed a surprising, offbeat encore at a concert in San Francisco: the pianist played Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" on the iPad.
  钢琴大师朗朗用一种令人惊叹的方式在旧金山演奏了一曲安可：用iPad演奏了NikolaiRimsky-Korsakov的名曲野蜂。
• They also produce a fortnightly newspaper, OffBeat, monitor media coverage of police and criminal activities; closely related or associated.
  警察公共关系科又制作一份双周刊《警声》，并密切注意传媒对警方及犯罪活动的报道。
• Similarly, scholars and researchers must be given the freedom to choose their own areas of study, no matter how offbeat or seemingly useless those areas may be.
  相类似地，学者和研究人员必须被赋予去选择他们自己研究领域的自由，无论那些领域可能是多么的怪异或似乎毫无用处。
• Because a frilled lizard on the run is one of nature's most offbeat, entertaining sights.
  因为逃跑中的皱褶蜥蜴是自然界最反传统和娱乐的景观之一。
• Listen to interesting and offbeat interviews and discussions with software innovators.
  收听新颖有趣的软件创新者访谈和讨论。
• We'll have no more offbeat dialogue.
  我们不会再有不合常规的对话了。
• His style is offbeat but highly creative.
  他的风格很不寻常但非常有创造力。
• It encouraged experimenters to propose offbeat or novel approaches to problems.
  它鼓励实验人员提出大胆或创新的方法来解决问题。
• Yet it is more than an offbeat parable about co-operation.
  但它不仅仅是一个关于合作的反传统寓言。
• The first was to the graduates of Simon's Rock, an offbeat school in Western Mass.
  第一场是对西蒙洛克学院的毕业生，一个在西方大众眼里比较奇怪的学校。