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。
• 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。
• I even loved his quirks, like his offbeat sense of humor.
  我甚至喜欢他的怪癖，比如他与众不同的幽默感。
• 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。
• By taking attendees out of the typical conference space, we, myself and all of the attendees that I consulted about the idea, hope that attendees will be inspired to be offbeat.
  将与会者带出典型的会议场所，我们，我和其他的与会者都希望能够被激发起反传统的欲望。
• If you want to link more offbeat hubs ( Baku Kinshasa Paramaribo, anyone?)
  如果你想要加入更多不寻常的城市（巴库-金沙萨-帕拉马里博，有人想去么？）
• 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。
• Dingyu, a freshman of Huzhong University of Science and Technology, has an offbeat hobby& eat insects.
  华中科技大学的一名大一新生有着不寻常的嗜好&吃昆虫。
• 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。
• I feel very fortunate in that regard, especially having begun the study of Chinese when it was considered an offbeat, arcane pursuit by many.
  我觉得自己在这方面是非常幸运的，特别是在大多数人都认为是离经叛道、不可思议的时候学起了中文。