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《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He imparted to her the mystery of going the odd man or plain Newmarket for fruit, ginger-beer, baked potatoes, or even a modest quencher, of which Miss Brass did not scruple to partake.
-- Then, Mr Brass and his sister (who has joined him at the door) exchange an odd kind of smile not at all a pleasant one in its expression and return to the society of Mr Richard Swiveller, who, during their absence, has been regaling himself with various feats of pantomime, and is discovered at his desk, in a very flushed and heated condition, violently scratching out nothing with half a penknife.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rabelais relates the story of a jurist who was trying a case, and who, after citing innumerable laws and reading twenty pages of incomprehensible judicial Latin, made an offer to the litigants to throw dice; if an even number fell then the plaintiff was right; if an odd number the defendant was right.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal."
-- So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.
-- You see, I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything.
-- For the first time I began to realise an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.
-- "It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, it's got branches, I declare!How very odd to find trees growing here!And actually here's a little brook!Well, this is the very queerest shop I ever saw!'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
-- Double grog was going on the least excuse; there was duff on odd days, as, for instance, if the squire heard it was any man's birthday, and always a barrel of apples standing broached in the waist for anyone to help himself that had a fancy.
-- I began to feel pretty desperate at this, for I felt altogether helpless; and yet, by an odd train of circumstances, it was indeed through me that safety came.
-- There was a porch at the door, and under this porch the little spring welled up into an artificial basin of a rather odd kind no other than a great ship's kettle of iron, with the bottom knocked out, and sunk "to her bearings," as the captain said, among the sand.
-- I should, I think, have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One iron plate was moved, a man appeared, uttered an odd cry, and disappeared immediately.
-- They were civil, and only used that odd language among themselves, the origin of which I could not guess, neither could I question them.
-- Instinctively the thought flashed across my mind that I should be wet through!By the water!in the midst of the water!I could not help laughing at the odd idea.
-- As to the molluscs, they consisted of some I had already observed turritellas, olive porphyras, with regular lines intercrossed, with red spots standing out plainly against the flesh; odd pteroceras, like petrified scorpions; translucid hyaleas, argonauts, cuttle-fish (excellent eating), and certain species of calmars that naturalists of antiquity have classed amongst the flying-fish, and that serve principally for bait for cod-fishing.
-- This odd animal, in a medium conductor like water, strikes fish at several yards' distance, so great is the power of its electric organ, the two principal surfaces of which do not measure less than twenty-seven square feet.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she asked, with the odd grunt of laughter in her voice, as if she were making game of him in the question.
-- There are odd moments when I hate you starrily."
-- He gave an odd squeal.
-- That's what they are animals and birds, sometimes odd small people in everyday dress, really rather wonderful when they come off.
-- But from under the towels odd defiant trills and bubblings still shook out.
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