Odd
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定义
odd: 怪异的
(an) odd (number): 奇数
(fifteen) odd (years): （15）多（年）
示例
- "Brian : Um, it was a bit odd actually."
- "In my 17-odd years as an efficiency expert, I have yet to come across an individual quite like Icarus Quincy."
练习 1
Fiona writes "in my 17-odd years as an efficiency expert". This means that Fiona has spent:
Fiona writes "in my 17-odd years as an efficiency expert". This means that Fiona has spent:
"Odd" does not express "difficult" here.
Although in another context, "odd" does mean "strange" or "abnormal" but this is not the case here. The hyphen (-), as well as the placement of the word adjacent to the number 17, indicates that the word is being used in a different way here.
This is correct. In English, we sometimes add the word "odd" to a number or figure to express that the actual number is "more than" or "in excess" of the number. For example, we might say "Susie invited 50-odd guests to her party" which means that Susie invited "more than 50 guests" to her party.
"Odd" does not express "exactly" here.
