odd是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 奇数的, 单独的, 零头的, 临时的, 古怪的, 奇怪的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Concord bed-chamber being always assigned to a passenger by the mail, and passengers by the mail being al-ways heavily wrapped up from head to foot, the room had the odd interest for the establishment of the Royal George, that although but one kind of man was seen to go into it, all kinds and varieties of men came out of it.
-- He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of hair, but which looked far more as though it were spun from filaments of silk or glass.
-- The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette's apartment.
-- After this odd description of his daily routine of em-ployment, Mr. Lorry flattened his flaxen wig upon his head with both hands (which was most unnecessary, for nothing could be flatter than its shining surface was before), and re-sumed his former attitude.
-- It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the Tatar appeared with a bill for twenty-six roubles and odd kopecks, besides a tip for himself, Levin, who would another time have been horrified, like any one from the country, at his share of fourteen roubles, did not notice it, paid, and set off homewards to dress and go to the Shtcherbatskys' there to decide his fate.
-- Writing out on note paper in his minute hand all that he owed, he added up the amount and found that his debts amounted to seventeen thousand and some odd hundreds, which he left out for the sake of clearness.
-- Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a Gemman expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round the world in eighty days."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was exposed as the founder of the first Rotary Club in Iowa; superintendent of the Jonathan Edwards Congregational Sunday School of Nautilus; president of the Moccasin Ski and Hiking Club, of the West Side Bowling Club, and the 1912 Bull Moose and Roosevelt Club; organizer and cheerleader of a Joint Picnic of the Woodmen, Moose, Elks, Masons, Odd Fellows, Turnverein, Knights of Columbus, B'nai Brith, and the Y.M.C.A.
-- II Between Pickerbaugh and Irving Watters, Martin was drafted into many of the associations, clubs, lodges, and "causes" with which Nautilus foamed; into the Chamber of Commerce, the Moccasin Ski and Hiking Club, the Elks' Club, the Odd Fellows, and the Evangeline County Medical society.
-- When Leora received the idea that he was going off to a death- haunted isle, to a place of strange ways and trees and faces (a place, probably, where they spoke funny languages and didn't have movies or tooth-paste), she took the notion secretively away with her, to look at it and examine it, precisely as she often stole little foods from the table and hid them and meditatively ate them at odd hours of the night, with the pleased expression of a bad child.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles,' he thought, with an odd smile.
-- But it's odd that he should be so clumsy about it if he had any designs against you芒聙娄.
-- It's odd that even at your father's funeral you should be so unpunctual.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My mother was too much afraid of her to refuse compliance withthis odd request, if she had any disposition to do so.
-- I can recollect, indeed, tohave speculated, at odd times, on the possibility of my not beingtaught any more, or cared for any more; and growing up to be ashabby moody man, lounging an idle life away, about the village;as well as on the feasibility of my getting rid of this picture bygoing away somewhere, like the hero in a story.
-- Butthere were no other clothes in my room than the odd heap of thingsI wore; and when I was left there, with a little taper which my auntforewarned me would burn exactly five minutes, I heard them lockmy door on the outside.
-- Inever could look at her for a few moments together but I found herlooking at me- in an odd thoughtful manner, as if I were animmense way off, instead of being on the other side of the smallround table.
-- I believe that I began to know that therewas something about my aunt, notwithstanding her manyeccentricities and odd humours, to be honoured and trusted in.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston is such a good-humoured, pleasant, excellent man, that he thoroughly deserves a good wife; and you would not have had Miss Taylor live with us for ever, and bear all my odd humours, when she might have a house of her own?'
-- This is three times as large. And you have never any odd humours, my dear.'
-- I want to see you permanently well connect-ed, and to that end it will be advisable to have as few odd acquaintance as may be; and, therefore, I say that if you should still be in this country when Mr. Martin marries, I wish you may not be drawn in by your intimacy with the sisters, to be acquainted with the wife, who will probably be some mere farmer's daughter, without education.'
-- So very odd we should happen to meet!Well, Miss Woodhouse, is he like what you expected?
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