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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave them great hope; indeed, the young girl could not help smiling at his sanguine prediction of success, and this odd way of foreseeing future events.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I hate to have odd gloves!Never mind, the other may be found.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-coloured squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable Cretan labyrinth of a figure, no two parts of which were of one precise shade owing I suppose to his keeping his arm at sea unmethodically in sun and shade, his shirt sleeves irregularly rolled up at various times this same arm of his, I say, looked for all the world like a strip of that same patchwork quilt.
-- I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
-- Then again, Stubb was one of those odd sort of humorists, whose jollity is sometimes so curiously ambiguous, as to put all inferiors on their guard in the matter of obeying them.
-- That odd sort of wayward mood I am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke.
-- And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the old gentleman came in as brisk as need be; but, he had no sooner raised his spectacles on his forehead, and thrust his hands behind the skirts of his dressing-gown to take a good long look at Oliver, than his countenance underwent a very great variety of odd contortions.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sar-castic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
-- It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together; and yet for the advantage of SOME, conversation ought to be so arranged, as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.'
-- He never said a great deal, nor did she give herself the trouble of talking or of listening much; but it struck her in the course of their third rencontre that he was asking some odd unconnect-ed questions about her pleasure in being at Hunsford, her love of solitary walks, and her opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Col-lins's happiness; and that in speaking of Rosings and her not perfectly understanding the house, he seemed to expect that whenever she came into Kent again she would be stay-ing THERE too.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After about two years, an odd circumstance presented itself, which put the old thought of making some attempt for my liberty again in my head.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Had he been in a situation to act independently and marry immediately, it might have been odd that he should leave us without acknowledging everything to me at once: but this is not the case.
-- "You will think my question an odd one, I dare say," said Lucy to her one day, as they were walking together from the park to the cottage "but pray, are you personally acquainted with your sister-in-law's mother, Mrs.
-- Elinor DID think the question a very odd one, and her countenance expressed it, as she answered that she had never seen Mrs. Ferrars.
-- "Oh!Colonel," said she, with her usual noisy cheerfulness, "I am monstrous glad to see you sorry I could not come before beg your pardon, but I have been forced to look about me a little, and settle my matters; for it is a long while since I have been at home, and you know one has always a world of little odd things to do after one has been away for any time; and then I have had Cartwright to settle with Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today?"
-- "If she had not known him to be in town she would not have written to him, as she did; she would have written to Combe Magna; and if he is in town, how odd that he should neither come nor write!Oh!my dear mother, you must be wrong in permitting an engagement between a daughter so young, a man so little known, to be carried on in so doubtful, so mysterious a manner!I long to inquire; and how will MY interference be borne."
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had thought there was something odd about Carrie's manner at the time.
-- The paltry sum of thirteen hundred and some odd dollars set against the need of rent, clothing, food, and pleasure for years to come was a spectacle little calculated to induce peace of mind in one who had been accustomed to spend five times that sum in the course of a year.
-- It sounded exceedingly odd to Carrie to be called Mrs. Wheeler by the janitor, but in time she became used to it and looked upon the name as her own.
-- Mr. and Mrs. Vance kept up a running fire of interruptions, and these impressive things by Ames came at odd moments.
-- It is only at odd moments that we get glimpses of the misery of things.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But if Juliet's such a young gal, duke, my peeled head and my white whiskers is goin' to look oncommon odd on her, maybe.'
-- So we had the odd spoon, and dropped it in her apron-pocket whilst she was a-giving us our sailing orders, and Jim got it all right, along with her shingle nail, before noon.
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