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  1. They're constantly at odds with each other.
    他们常互相争吵.
  2. The horse was running at odds of ten to one.
    那匹马参赛赔率是十比一。
  3. He's always at odds with his father over politics.
    在政治上他总和父亲意见不一.


at odds
[ adj ]
in disagreement
<adj.all>
the figures are at odds with our findingscontradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness


Odds \Odds\ ([o^]dz), n. sing. & pl. [See {Odd}, a.]
1. Difference in favor of one and against another; excess of
one of two things or numbers over the other; inequality;
advantage; superiority; hence, excess of chances;
probability. The odds are often expressed by a ratio; as,
the odds are three to one that he will win, i. e. he will
win three times out of four ``Pre["e]minent by so much
odds.'' --Milton. ``The fearful odds of that unequal
fray.'' --Trench.

The odds
Is that we scarce are men and you are gods. --Shak.

There appeared, at least, four to one odds against
them. --Swift.

All the odds between them has been the different
scope . . . given to their understandings to range
in. --Locke.

Judging is balancing an account and determining on
which side the odds lie. --Locke.

2. Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase
at odds.

Set them into confounding odds. --Shak.

I can not speak
Any beginning to this peevish odds. --Shak.

{At odds}, in dispute; at variance. ``These squires at odds
did fall.'' --Spenser. ``He flashes into one gross crime
or other, that sets us all at odds.'' --Shak.

{It is odds}, it is probable; same as {odds are}, but no
longer used. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.

{odds are} it is probable; as, odds are he will win the gold
medal.

{Odds and ends}, that which is left; remnants; fragments;
refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. ``My brain is
filled . . . with all kinds of odds and ends.'' --W.
Irving.

{slim odds} low odds; poor chances; as, there are slim odds
he will win any medal.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

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