"With his adventurous courage, he never refuses any odds, but there is wit in his bravado. In the Passage de l'Opera he chanced to meet a man who had spoken slightingly of him, elbowed him as he passed, and then turned and jostled him a second time.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
The final revision of the Tindale translations was published in 1534, and that becomes the notable year of his life. In two years he was put to death by strangling, and his body was burned. When we remember that this was done with the joint power of Church and State, we realize some of the odds against which he worked.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
A careful sweep of the broom was afterward given to clear the scrupulously clean deck of the dust and odds and ends, while the sailors returned merrily to play with their parrots and monkeys.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
With Larvoer's expression of opinion about Gaud ended this parley with the crew of the /Reine-Berthe/, none of whom were ever again to be seen by human eyes. For a moment their faces became more dim, their vessel being already farther away; and then, all at once, the men of the /Marie/ found they had nothing to push against, nothing at the end of their poles--all spars, oars, odds and ends of deck-lumber, were groping and quivering in emptiness, till they fell heavily, one after the other, down into the sea, like their own arms, lopped off and inert.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
Coleman was the first man to arise. When he left the room the students were just beginning to blink. He took his dragoman among the shops and he bought there all the little odds and ends which might go to make up the best breakfast in Arta. If he had had news of certain talk he probably would not have been buying breakfast for eleven people. Instead, he would have been buying breakfast for one. During his absence the students arose and performed their frugal toilets. Considerable attention was paid to Coke by the others. " He made a monkey of you," said Peter Tounley with unction.英文原著 · 《Active Service》
"What are the chances something will happen?" And I was like, "A million to one." And she was like, "I like those odds.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
If I bet our winnings with the three-to-one odds on this horse tomorrow, Do you know how much I can make us?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
She's at odds with you, with herself, over this battle.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'd have given 30 to one odds you'd miss with the phone.美剧 · 《Billions》