By the time they were back in the garage and had the grease cleaned out of the rear gears so that they could see whether they were really burred or broken, as Bud had suspected, the twinkle was back in his eyes, and the smiley quirk stayed at the corners of his mouth, and when he was not talking mechanics with Bill he was whistling. He found much lost motion and four broken teeth, and he was grease to his eyebrows--in other words, he was happy.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
And the twinkle, as he talked, was back in his eyes, and the smiley quirk was at the corner of his lips.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
"She's sure running light, all right Now," Bud added sardonically, but with the whimsical quirk withal, "if it was like a carburetor, and you could give it a richer mixture--"英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
Bud was not a pretty sight. Four days and nights of trying to see how much whisky he could drink, and how long he could play poker without going to sleep or going broke, had left their mark on his face and his trembling hands. His eyes were puffy and red, and his cheeks were mottled, and his lips were fevered and had lost any sign of a humorous quirk at the corners. He looked ugly; as if he would like nothing better than an excuse to quarrel with Cash--since Cash was the only person at hand to quarrel with.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
He came trotting up to the suit case which Marie had spread wide open on the bed, stood up on his tippy toes, and peered in. The quirky smile was twitching his lips, and the look he turned toward Marie's back was full of twinkle. He reached into the suit case, clutched a clean handkerchief and blew his nose with solemn precision; put the handkerchief back all crumpled, grabbed a silk stocking and drew it around his neck, and was straining to reach his little red Brownie cap when Marie turned and caught him up in her arms.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
The baby was smiling at him delightedly, with a quirk of the lips and a twinkle lodged deep somewhere in its eyes. It worked one hand free of its odorous wrappings, spread four fat fingers wide apart over one eye, and chirped, "Pik-k?" and chuckled infectiously deep in its throat.英文原著 · 《Cabin Fever》
So that we're all on the same page, The word we're gonna use to describe them is "quirky." And not quirky. More like quirky.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
Because while you've been plotting how to replace me with Gal Gadot's quirky sister, I've been busy.美剧 · 《Billions》
You think he's Tin Cup McAvoy, and you're Don Johnson, and you'll let the quirk in his character defeat him, but it might just be the other way around.美剧 · 《Billions》
That was a person who became artsy and quirky and analytical when she was picked on as a kid instead of using what she really felt, which was hatred.美剧 · 《Billions》