英和和英

語源

From at +‎ odds (“(obsolete) dissimilarity; inequality”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ət‿ˈɒdz/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ət‿ˈɑdz/, [əɾ‿ˈɑdz]
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ət‿ˈɒdz/, [əɾ‿ˈɒdz]
• (General Australian) IPA: /ət‿ˈɔdz/, [əɾ‿ˈɔdz]
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ət‿ˈɒdz/, [əɾ‿ˈɔ̟dz]
• 韻: -ɒdz

前置詞句

at odds

1. (idiomatic) In disagreement; conflicting.

   Synonyms: at loggerheads, at sixes and sevens, at variance

   The witness’s statement seems to be at odds with the evidence—not a good sign for the prosecutor.

   • c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     By day and night he vvrongs me, / Euery houre he flaſhes into one groſſe crime or other / That ſets vs all at ods, ile not indure it, […]

   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 186:

     [I] began to be at odds vvith myſelf vvhether to be glad or ſorry; […]

   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, “The Reader is Brought into Communication with Some Professional Persons, and Sheds a Tear over the Filial Piety of Good Mr. Jonas”, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 237:

     In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a note-book in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction; […]

   • 1940, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in 30,000 on the Hoof, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 5:

     At Pleasant Valley sheepmen and cattlemen were at odds over the grazing. Sooner or later they would clash.

   • 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kett: Primus Codex entry:

     Evidence now proves that the Primus and the Archon are at odds. Investigations show that the Primus disapproves of the Archon's single-minded interest in Remnant technology, believing it to be a distraction from the kett's attempts to conquer Heleus.

   • 2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 7 June 2025:

     In 2017, after five years of YouTube obscurity, he had his first viral hit, a video which now seems, weirdly, both completely at odds with the thrust of his subsequent career, and to contain many of its core themes. It’s called I Counted to 100,000!, and it’s exactly that: a livestreamed ordeal, lasting about 40 hours, in which the young Donaldson sits in his gaming chair, stares into his crappy webcam, and counts from 1 to 100,000.

参考

• at cross-purposes
• on the outs

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