1. The Romans thought that odd numbers were lucky and they took a day from a 30-day month — from February — to get an extra 31-day month. 罗马人认为奇数是吉祥的数字,他们从一个有30天的月份——2月份——中去掉了一天,从而又多了一个有31天的月份。
2. And one odd finding that makes the problem puzzling is that it looks very much as if sleeping is not simply a matter of giving the body a rest. 一项使人对这个问题感到困惑的奇怪的发现是,睡眠在很大程度似乎并不仅仅是为了使身体得到休息。
3. At the time, this did not strike me as odd. 一开始,我并不感到奇怪,
4. And the English would have been sure to find it "odd". 而英国人也肯定会觉得这很"古怪"。
5. It´s odd that he has gone out in the rain without an umbralla. 真奇怪,他不带雨伞就冒雨出门。
6. I´ve heard some odd tales about her. 我听到些关於她的怪事.
7. It contains not only the famous five-thousand-seat banqueting hall, and twenty odd reception rooms each as big as normal ballroom, but the Great Hall itself. 它不仅具有一个五千座位的著名的宴会厅,二十多个像普通舞厅大小的会客厅,而且还有一个大会堂。
8. I've always advocated gun control; the odd thing is I still do. It wasn't ignorance of crime statistics that previously kept me from owning a gun nor thinking I was immune to violence. 我一贯主张控制枪支,奇怪的是我现在依然主张控制枪支。以前我没有枪,并不是因为我对有关犯罪的统计资料不了解,也不是因为我自认为可以不受暴力的袭击。
9. I wondered why he held his head motionless at an odd angle, as though he were in prayer. 当时我感到奇怪,为什么他的头一动不动地保持着一个古怪的角度,好像在祷告一样。