怪怪的
配不進既有的模式，久了就給人「怪」的感覺：這是今天最常用的意思，也是從「落單」那一頭延伸最遠的一個。
strange, unusual · adjective · B2
Different from what is usual or expected, in a way that seems strange or a little hard to understand.
奇怪的
核心畫面
One way to picture odd: the one left over when everything else has paired up — the sock without its partner. That leftover position runs through most of the word: numbers that will not divide in two, the person left outside the group, the bit of change above a round number. And what does not fit the pattern easily comes to feel strange, which is the sense you hear most often.
可以想成 odd 是「大家都配好對之後，剩下的那一個」——那隻找不到另一半的襪子。這個「落單」的位置貫穿了它大部分的…更多收起
可以想成 odd 是「大家都配好對之後，剩下的那一個」——那隻找不到另一半的襪子。這個「落單」的位置貫穿了它大部分的用法：除不盡的數字、被留在圈外的人、整數之上多出來的零頭。而配不進去的東西久了就給人怪怪的感覺，那正是今天最常聽到的那個意思。From the picture
偶爾、隨手
同樣是「零星散落的那些」：不是排定的、不是精挑的，就是偶爾冒出來或剛好在手邊的那一個。
occasional · adjective · B2
Happening sometimes but not often or regularly — used before words like day, moment, game, or occasion.
偶爾的
Also in this word
odd, unmatched · adjective · B2
Not part of a matching pair or set — the one that is left over or does not match.
不成對的
odd number · adjective · B2
Describing a whole number that cannot be divided exactly by two, such as 1, 3, 5, or 7.
奇數的
not fitting the group · adjective · B2
Someone or something that is different from the rest of a group, or that is left out of it.
格格不入的
-odd, a bit more than · adjective · B2
Used right after a round number like twenty or thirty to mean 'a little more than that'.
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原始詞典資料21 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Oddname
- 1
A male given name.
- 2
Minced form of God.
- Odd's pittikins, Odd's blood, Odd's hounds, Odd's dickens, Od's fish, Od's heft
- 3
A surname from Middle English.
oddadj/ɒd/
- 1
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- She slept in, which was very odd.
- We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
- 2
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- [One of them would] say, 'Hi, Mother.' This might be Chrissie with the purple hair and black lipstick, or Adam, who usually wore odd leather stuff. Sometimes 'Hi' was all I heard; other times they'd stay and talk for a minute.
- 3
Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Optimistically, he had a corner of a drawer for odd socks.
- My cat Fluffy has odd eyes: one blue and one brown.
- 4
Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- I'm the odd one out.
- 5
Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- "Here, I have some odd change that should make things easier." As Tish turned and reached for the cigarettes, Eric took some loose coins from his pocket and placed the change from the twenty into his other pocket.
- Third was my college loan of five thousand dollars and some odd change.
- 6
Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- I don't speak Latin well, so in hearing a dissertation in Latin, I would only be able to make out the odd word of it.
- but for the odd exception
- 7
Not regular or planned.
- He's only worked odd jobs.
- 8
Used or employed for odd jobs.
- The odd horse will now be employed in carting couch grass on to pasture land, carting hay, &c, to sheep in the field, carting roots, straw, &c, for feeding cattle in the boxes or dairy cows in the stalls or yards, and in various odd jobs on the farm ...
- At about 14 he rises a step by getting the 'odd' horse and cart, and does all the small carting work about the farm.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
- 9
mathematicssciencesNumerically indivisible by two.
- The product of two odd numbers is also odd.
- In their original article, Messrs Christie and Schultz found that in 70 of the 100 most heavily traded stocks, Nasdaq dealers avoided quoting prices in odd eighths of a dollar. Buyers were far more likely to quote shares at 28 1/2 or 28 3/4 than at 28 5/8.
- 10
Numbered with an odd number.
- How do I print only the odd pages?
- 11
About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- There were thirty-odd people in the room.
- 12
Out of the way, secluded.
- "Well, isn't it a bit unusual to run into an old friend in an odd corner of the world like this?" I asked.
- Plant a clump in your postage stamp garden, or stuff them in an odd corner of a flower bed. (They prefer full sun but will tolerate filtered shade.)
- 13
hobbieslifestylesportsOn the left.
- He served from the odd court.
- 14
obsoleteSingular in excellence; matchless; peerless; outstanding.
- He goes to Phrygia, and sees Scamander. "Happy are all," he says, "who are honoured by that odd clerk. Homer." In Macedonia, he finds hie mother.
- I assure you, if I were Hazlewood I should look on his compliments, his bowings, his cloakings, his shawlings, and his handings with some little suspicion; and truly I think Hazlewood does so too at some odd times.
oddnoun/ɒd/
- 1
informalSomething left over, not forming part of a set.
- I’ve got three complete sets of these trading cards for sale, plus a few dozen odds.
- 2
mathematicssciencesAn odd number.
- So let’s see. There are two evens here and three odds.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。