时间:2019-01-10 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

oddball


odds 2 and ends


你们大概都知道,英文里有许多单字可以有好几种解释,有时使得学英语的人感到很糊涂,到底这个字是什么意思。就拿odd 1这个字来说吧, odd这个字仅仅只有三个字母组成,可是它却有好几个意思。它可以形容某个很奇怪的人或者行为,也可以指一、三、五这样的单数。Odd这个字还可以和别的字合在一起用,当然和不同的字合在一起它的意思也就不同。例如:Oddball。要是你说某人是个oddball,那就是说这个人表现的很奇怪,和一般人不一样。我们来举个例子吧:


例句-1: My friend Joe is certainly an oddball. In the summer he puts his shoes in the refrigerator at night so his feet will be cool when he goes to work in the morning.


这是说:"我的朋友乔伊真怪。在夏天,他晚上把鞋子放在冰箱里,说是第二天早上去上班去的时候,脚可以凉快一点。"


世界上的怪人还是很多的。下面这个例子说的那个人也是怪得出奇:


例句-2: And another oddball is Bill, especially when it comes to food. Can you believe it, he even puts catchup on his ice cream. Talk about oddballs!


这句话的意思是:"另外一个很怪的人是比尔,特别是在吃东西方面。你信不信,他吃冰淇淋的时候竟然还要加蕃茄酱。真是什么怪人都有!"


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我们下面再来讲一个 odd和其它字合在一起的习惯用语:Odds and ends。 Odds and ends 的意思是:零碎东西。比如,一个人要到外地去旅行,他可能会说:


例句-3: Okay, I'm all packed now, except for a few odds and ends I'll put in a handbag and carry on the plane with me.


这人说:"行了,我的行李都准备好了,还有一些零星小东西,我准备把它们放在手提包里,随身带上飞机去。"


你要是到美国的公司或其他机构去参观的话,你可以看到很多人的办公桌上很乱,纸张文件堆得很高。下面这个人就是一个例子:


例句-4: One good thing I got done at the office today was clean up my desk. I'd let so many odds and ends pile 3 up that you could scarcely 4 see the desk itself. But I got busy and took care of everything.


这个人说:"今天我在办公室里做的一件好事是把我的桌子整理乾净了。那些零零碎碎的东西越堆越多,简直连桌面都看不见了。可是,我今天抓紧时间,把所有的东西都整理好了。"



adj.奇特的;临时的;奇数的;n.[pl.]机会
  • She looks a bit odd.I wonder what has happened to her.她的神色有些异样,不知出了什么事。
  • He's an odd character and no mistake!他的确是个怪人!
n.让步,机率,可能性,比率;胜败优劣之别
  • The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
  • Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗?
n.堆,大堆,大量,电池,桥桩,软毛,痔疮;vi.堆起,堆积,积累,挤;vt.堆于,累积
  • Collect the books and put them in a pile on my desk.把书收起来放在我的桌子上。
  • Pile the leaves in the corner of the yard.把树叶堆到院子里。
adv.几乎不,简直没有,勉强
  • He found the dullness of his work scarcely bearable.他觉得他的工作枯燥乏味,简直无法忍受。
  • She scarcely earns enough money to make ends meet.她几乎挣不到足够的钱以维持开支。
学英语单词
acceleration mechanism
accumulated error
air trunking
alto cloud
articuli intercartilaginei
atomizing medium
ballast passage
beer-cellar
bill of sight
biting habit
bloom inhibited chocolate
bona vacantia
bond slip
bread-stick
camphor brown oil
ceratotheriums
coke dick
confederations
conservation and transformation of energy theorem
constant white
contaminated water evaporator plant
continuous time sequential decision process
dayberry
democratic convention
df (distribution factor)
Doverdale
drainage basins
dynamic input-output table
energy obesity
eosin-methylene blue agar
fered
fetch way
fouling organisms
genialise
genus Triticum
gholes
gifted-student
give up as a lost cause
Grey Pt.
guidelineless
hem stitching
home cooking
hood beast
hulk off
Ilex metabaptista
Immigration Restriction Act
impotential
intact side of ship
internal security audit
introduce myself
kotschbeyite
lenticular bedding
measurest
medium temperature carbonization
metric slug
Noroxyhydrastinine
open handed
operations research model
pepper jelly
pin-making machine
plane-wave initiation
point of compound curve
possible cause
preliminary ada
psychology of vision
psychopathic ward
pull oneself together
pulse accelerator
Quiphenyl
residual dust
restriction site
retrospective law
rural commerce
schesis
Schott's treatment
seascape
self cancelling
sibneft
Smootheye
snatch up
soda-hornblendes
soysa
stocktakes
stratasys
tachylite (tachylyte)
the Almighty
think out aloud
thymothymectomy
tonic convulsion
topwork
total displacement curve
transittime tube
translating bridge
trilaurylamine oxide(TLAO)
unattemptable
unknown crystal
vanadium oxytrifluoride
Ventilation-Perfusion
Volmetron
Who knows?
zoetermeers