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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A few only, of whom Lebedeff made one, stood their ground; he had contrived to walk side by side with Rogojin, for he quite un-derstood the importance of a man who had a fortune of a million odd roubles, and who at this moment carried a hun-dred thousand in his hand.
-- 'How strangely you speak, and how odd you look!'
-- He caught himself engaged in a strange oc-cupation which he now recollected he had taken up at odd moments for the last few hours it was looking about all around him for something, he did not know what.
-- Say how odd it appears to you that a man fallen to such a depth of humiliation as I, can ever have been the actual eye-witness of great events.
-- This was odd of Lizabetha Prokofievna and her daugh-ters.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But excepting two odd incidents, the circumstances of his stay until the extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily.
-- Then, I thought, there's something odd in that.
-- Then he had an odd impression that he had heard a low voice say, "Good Heavens! Kemp!"
-- But it's odd I should blunder into your house to get my bandaging.
-- He held it out to me, saw something odd about my hands, I expect, and lifted his eyes to my face.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sail-or whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man.
-- I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet if the contradiction is credible I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.
-- He was a pow-erfully-built man, as I have said, with a fine forehead and rather heavy features; but his eyes had that odd drooping of the skin above the lids which often comes with advancing years, and the fall of his heavy mouth at the corners gave him an expression of pugnacious resolution.
-- I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen, not stiff they were, but distort-ed in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.
-- The three big fellows spoke to one another in odd guttural tones, and the man who had waited for us on the beach began chattering to them excitedly a foreign language, as I fancied as they laid hands on some bales piled near the stern.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then they sing long, long songs with odd native quavers at the end of them, and the day seems longer than most people's whole lives, and perhaps they make a mud castle with mud figures of men and horses and buffaloes, and put reeds into the men's hands, and pretend that they are kings and the figures are their armies, or that they are gods to be worshiped.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were no flowers, and various knick-knacks, put away during the summer, had not been replaced; there was something cheerless and stiff about the room which had always seemed so friendly; it gave you an odd feeling, as though someone were lying dead on the other side of the wall.
-- With his untidy beard and long hair, his features, always a little larger than life, now emphasised by illness, he had an extraordinary aspect; but it was so odd that it was not quite ugly.
-- There were often odd jobs to be got about the fish-market.
-- To these people, native and European, he was a queer fish, but they were used to queer fish, and they took him for granted; the world was full of odd persons, who did odd things; and perhaps they knew that a man is not what he wants to be, but what he must be.
-- He received us in a room that might have been in a house in a provincial town in France, and the one or two Polynesian curios had an odd look.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.
-- As it was too late an hour to repair to the exhibition room, they turned aside into a piece of waste ground that lay just within the old town-gate, and drew up there for the night, near to another caravan, which, notwithstanding that it bore on the lawful panel the great name of Jarley, and was employed besides in conveying from place to place the wax-work which was its country's pride, was designated by a grovelling stamp-office as a 'Common Stage Waggon,' and numbered too seven thousand odd hundred as though its precious freight were mere flour or coals!
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