odd

• adj. 奇数的；古怪的；剩余的；临时的；零散的
• n. 奇数；怪人；奇特的事物
• n. (Odd)人名；(英、西、挪、瑞典)奥德

来自古诺斯语oddi,第三或多出的，来自Proto-Germanic*uzdaz,向上刺的点，顶角，来自PIE*uzdho,刺，刺点。后引申词义奇数的，怪异的，偶然发生的等。

1. not divisible by two

2. not easily explained;

"it is odd that his name is never mentioned"

3. an indefinite quantity more than that specified;

"invited 30-odd guests"

4. beyond or deviating from the usual or expected;

"a curious hybrid accent"

"her speech has a funny twang"

"they have some funny ideas about war"

"had an odd name"

"the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"

"something definitely queer about this town"

"what a rum fellow"

"singular behavior"

5. of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.

6. not used up;

"leftover meatloaf"

"she had a little money left over so she went to a movie"

"some odd dollars left"

"saved the remaining sandwiches for supper"

"unexpended provisions"

odd

odd: [14] The etymological idea underlying odd is of ‘pointing upwards’. Its ultimate ancestor is a prehistoric Indo-European *uzdho-, a compound formed from *uz- ‘up’ and *dho- ‘put, place’ (source of English do). From the notion of a ‘pointed vertical object’ developed ‘triangle’, which in turn introduced the idea of ‘three’ and ‘one left over from two’, hence ‘indivisible by two’. This is the meaning odd had when English borrowed it from Old Norse oddi, and the modern sense ‘peculiar’ (as if the ‘odd one out’) did not emerge until the late 16th century.
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odd (adj.)

c. 1300, "constituting a unit in excess of an even number," from Old Norse oddi "third or additional number," as in odda-maðr "third man, odd man (who gives the casting vote)," odda-tala "odd number." The literal meaning of Old Norse oddi is "point of land, angle" (related via notion of "triangle" to oddr "point of a weapon"); from Proto-Germanic *uzdaz "pointed upward" (cognates: Old English ord "point of a weapon, spear, source, beginning," Old Frisian ord "point, place," Dutch oord "place, region," Old High German ort "point, angle," German Ort "place"), from PIE *uzdho- (cognates: Lithuanian us-nis "thistle"). None of the other languages, however, shows the Old Norse development from "point" to "third number." Used from late 14c. to indicate a surplus over any given sum.

Sense of "strange, peculiar" first attested 1580s from notion of "odd one out, unpaired one of three" (attested earlier, c. 1400, as "singular" in a positive sense of "renowned, rare, choice"). Odd job (c. 1770) is so called from notion of "not regular." Odd lot "incomplete or random set" is from 1897. The international order of Odd Fellows began as local social clubs in England, late 18c., with Masonic-type trappings; formally organized 1813 in Manchester.

queer, odd, funny, crazy, curious, peculiar, strange, eccentric, quaint, singular

这些形容词均含有"奇怪的，奇异的，新奇的"之意。

queer： 指一种无法解释的怪诞，强调事物的奇特和不可思议。

odd： 通常指不规律、偶尔出现的人或事物，往往令人困惑或奇怪。

funny： 较通俗用词，指奇怪得滑稽可笑或反常。

crazy： 多指与众不同的行为、外表或人与物本身，含荒唐可笑或神经不正常的意味。

curious： 通常指非常特别或能引起注意、研究或探索的奇特。

peculiar： 侧重令人奇怪的或独一无二的特性，也指性格特征方面显著的与众不同之处。

strange： 普通常用词，含义广泛，指陌生新奇、奇怪、奇怪或不自然的人或物。

eccentric： 指偏离常规的怪异或怪癖。

quaint： 指古色古香，会人感到既奇怪又有趣。

singular： 通常指异常或奇特，暗含不同于一般。

He was always active, looking for odd jobs to do.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and odd new perceptions about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

By doing odd jobs for local institutions.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Well, I guess I'd sell my watch or computer or do some odd jobs till I could afford a return plane ticket.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It has become something odd in a modern house.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Its overall mission, after all, is to "organise the world's information", so it would be odd if that information did not include books.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

They are wondering why Act Two is odd and how it differs from Act One.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

She was giving me an odd look-half puzzled, half intent.

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter's eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn't work.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They're very odd people.

他们那些人都很古怪。

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There's something odd about that man.

那个人有点儿怪。

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It's most odd that (= very odd that) she hasn't written.

真怪了，她一直没写信。

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The odd thing was that he didn't recognize me.

怪就怪在他没认出我来。

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She had the oddest feeling that he was avoiding her.

她有一种异样的感觉——他在躲着她。

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an odd-looking house

样子怪异的房子

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an odd-sounding name

听起来奇怪的名字

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He makes the odd mistake─nothing too serious.

他偶尔会犯错误，但不怎么严重。

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decorations made of odd scraps of paper

用各种各样的纸片做的装饰

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You're wearing odd socks!

你穿的袜子不成双呀！

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1, 3, 5 and 7 are odd numbers.

1、3、5和7是奇数。

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Could I see you when you've got an odd moment ?

你有空时，我能不能见见你？

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How old is she─seventy odd?

她多大年纪？七十出头？

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He's worked there for twenty-odd years.

他在那里工作了二十多年。

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[不可数名词]the oddness of her appearance

她那怪样子

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His oddness frightened her.

他的反常把她吓坏了。

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At school he was always the odd man out.

在学校里他总是与别人格格不入。

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Dog, cat, horse, shoe─which is the odd one out?

狗、猫、马、鞋——哪一个不属同类？

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He'd always been odd, but not to this extent...

他一直比较怪异，不过并没有到这种程度。

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What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family...

他居然认识你的家人，真是太巧了。

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...moving from place to place where she could find the odd bit of work...

她为了找到点儿零散活计不断地搬来搬去

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He had various odd cleaning jobs around the place...

他在这附近干过各种零碎的保洁工作。

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How many pages was it, 500 odd?...

这有多少页，500来页？

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He has now appeared in sixty odd films...

他迄今演过60多部影片。

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The odd numbers are on the left as you walk up the street...

沿这条街走，在左边的是单号。

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There's an odd number of candidates.

候选人总数为单数。

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I'm wearing odd socks today by the way.

顺便提一下，我今天穿的袜子不成对。

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Azerbaijan has been the odd man out, the one republic not to hold democratic elections...

阿塞拜疆没有举行民主选举，是这些共和国中的异类。

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Mark and Rick were the odd ones out in claiming to like this cherry beer.

只剩下马克和里克声称喜欢喝这种樱桃啤酒。

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