odd中等

Odd

奇怪的

Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

父亲出狱后不久，狄更斯在律师事务所找到了一份更好的差事——当跑腿的。他自学速记，后来得到了更好的工作，担任法庭速记员和议会记者。与此同时，狄更斯以记者的眼光记录身边的生活，尤其是任何滑稽或古怪的事情，并向一些不知名的杂志投寄短篇随笔。

Odd

奇怪

Which of the following is shown to be odd, according to Paragraph 4?

根据第4段，下列哪一项被认为是奇怪的？

taking up odd jobs.

打零工

But in my experience, using such methods to free up the odd 30 minutes doesn’t work.

但根据我的经验，用这些方法腾出零星的30分钟是行不通的。