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。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear me! it is so odd to hear a woman talk so!
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I always think mine sounds odd and disagreeable."
-- But everybody else was noticing you; and it was odd he didn't.
-- Flossy catkins of the later kinds, fern-sprouts like bishops' croziers, the square-headed moschatel, the odd cuckoo-pint, like an apoplectic saint in a niche of malachite, snow-white ladies'-smocks, the toothwort, approximating to human flesh, the enchanter's night-shade, and the black-petaled doleful-bells, were among the quainter objects of the vegetable world in and about Weatherbury at this teeming time; and of the animal, the metamorphosed figures of Mr. Jan Coggan, the master-shearer; the second and third shearers, who travelled in the exercise of their calling, and do not require definition by name; Henery Fray the fourth shearer, Susan Tall's husband the fifth, Joseph Poorgrass the sixth, young Cain Ball as assistant-shearer, and Gabriel Oak as general supervisor.
-- Bathsheba who was driven to the fair that day by her odd man Poorgrass had, like every one else, read or heard the announcement that Mr. Francis, the Great Cosmopolitan Equestrian and Roughrider, would enact the part of Turpin, and she was not yet too old and careworn to be without a little curiosity to see him.
-- It was very odd to these two persons, who knew each other passing well, that the mere circumstance of their meeting in a new place and in a new way should make them so awkward and constrained.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As a matter of fact, she was as suspicious as a cat; but she was like many other people, who cannot trust their own kin and put themselves at the mercy of the next chance comer--an odd but common phenomenon, whose causes may readily be traced to the depths of the human heart.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It beat with odd littlejerks; her hands were cold, and a feeling of disaster oppressed her.
-- His two oldest brothers, Jamesand Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night onmysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety.
-- Honey had the odd lashless look of a rabbit, and Indiacould be described by no other word than plain.
-- An odd look came over Charles' face, incredulity and shame struggling with love.
-- The ladies always felt a little odd when they besieged him with questionsabout styles, but they did it nevertheless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
-- The strange man, after glancing at Joe, and seeing that his attention was otherwise engaged, nodded to me again when I had taken my seat, and then rubbed his leg--in a very odd way, as it struck me.
-- He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful, half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking.
-- There were not so many papers about, as I should have expected to see; and there were some odd objects about, that I should not have expected to see,--such as an old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange-looking boxes and packages, and two dreadful casts on a shelf, of faces peculiarly swollen, and twitchy about the nose.
-- I wondered what was the history of all the odd litter about the room, and how it came there.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried the mouse, 'that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?'
-- answered the mouse, 'they are such odd names, they make me very thoughtful.'
-- 'What an odd thing that is!'
-- Now the queen lay awake all night, thinking of all the odd names that she had ever heard; and she sent messen-gers all over the land to find out new ones.
-- The good man knew not what to say or think at such an odd thing happening.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He add-ed, 'that his suspicions were much increased by some very absurd speeches I had delivered at first to his sailors, and af-terwards to himself, in relation to my closet or chest, as well as by my odd looks and behaviour while I was at supper.'
-- I could not forbear admiring at these odd appearances, both in town and country; and I made bold to desire my conductor, that he would be pleased to explain to me, what could be meant by so many busy heads, hands, and faces, both in the streets and the fields, because I did not discover any good effects they produced; but, on the contrary, I never knew a soil so unhappily cul-tivated, houses so ill contrived and so ruinous, or a people whose countenances and habit expressed so much misery and want.
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