Contingency
[kən'tɪndʒ(ə)nsɪ] or [kən'tɪndʒənsi]
解释:
(n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
(n.) The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
(n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
(n.) An adjunct or accessory.
(n.) A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
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同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Accidentalness, fortuity, uncertainty.[2]. Casualty, accident, incident, occurrence, event.
编辑:马克斯
同义词及反义词：
[See ACCIDENT]
录入:佩内洛普
例句:
- The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Alcibiades & Company that Justinian was far too wide awake not to have thought of this contingency, and had made his preparations in consequence. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- General Scott at once began the preparation of orders, regulations and laws in view of this contingency. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- By all means avoid the contingency of a foot race to see which, you or Hood, can beat to the Ohio. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- To provide for this last and most possible contingency, several ferry-boats of the largest class ought to be immediately provided. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The latter contingency seemed improbable, yet Lily was not without a sense of uneasiness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- In New York the question of permanency was of paramount importance, and the other contingencies were sure to arise as well as conditions more easy to imagine than to forestall. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- So many strange contingencies are improbable in the highest degree. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
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