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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, upon this occasion, I hope the reader will pardon my relating an odd adventure.
-- The honest Portuguese were equally amazed at my strange dress, and the odd manner of delivering my words, which, however, they understood very well.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bounderby looked very hard at the good lady in a side-long way that had an odd sheepishness about it.
-- Else wherefore live we in a Christian land, eighteen hundred and odd years after our Master?
-- Exceedingly odd place.
-- 'He had another odd dream of being taken by a waiter through a mist, which, after giving him some trouble and difficulty, resolved itself into the main street, in which he stood alone.
-- In the little safe in young Tom's closet, the safe used for petty purposes, there was a hundred and fifty odd pound.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He looked at me from under his spectacles, and started at the odd expression of my face.
-- cried my uncle; "it appears to me a collection of useless odd volumes, and a beggarly amount of empty shelves."
-- If elsewhere she produces grand artistic effects by piling up huge masses without order or connection--if elsewhere we see truncated cones, imperfect pyramids, with an odd succession of lines; here, as if wishing to give a lesson in regularity, and preceding the architects of the early ages, she has erected a severe order of architecture, which neither the splendors of Babylon nor the marvels of Greece ever surpassed.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He pushed back his hat in an odd comic way.
-- But gradu-ally, as she came to the bottom of him, to use her own term, she found he was like the rest, a baby grown to man's pro-portions: but a baby with a queer temper and a fine manner and power in its control, and all sorts of odd knowledge that she had never dreamed of, with which he could still bully her.
-- It was a very odd look, this look of im-pudence: as if he were triumphing over life in spite of life.
-- She looked down at the milky odd little flowers among the brown maiden-hair at the lower tip of her body.
-- She watched him with amusement, his odd intentness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not on the same floor, for it was a room at the side of the house, which was approached by a steep descent of a few odd steps, diverging from the main staircase nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam's door.
-- 'Odd enough, Mr Clennam, that we should have met just now,' said the man.
-- She said all this, and everything else, as coldly as a woman of snow; quite forgetting the sisters except at odd times, and apparently addressing some abstraction of Society; for whose behoof, too, she occasionally arranged her dress, or the composition of her figure upon the ottoman.
-- Very odd though.
-- He had his money ready, folded in a scrap of paper, and laughingly handed it in; then with a free action, threw out as many fingers of his right hand as there were shillings, and made a cut crosswise in the air for an odd sixpence.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is an odd old gentleman, but that pleased him.
-- 'Laurie Laurence, what an odd name.'
-- Before Mrs. March could reply, Mr. Laurence went on with an odd little nod and smile... 'They needn't see or speak to anyone, but run in at any time.
-- The old gentleman liked the fun, and amused himself by sending odd bundles, mysterious messages, and funny telegrams, and his gardener, who was smitten with Hannah's charms, actually sent a love letter to Jo's care.
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