Chance
[tʃɑːns] or [tʃæns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a risk involving danger; 'you take a chance when you let her drive'.
(verb.) be the case by chance; 'I chanced to meet my old friend in the street'.
欧文整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
(n.) The operation or activity of such agent.
(n.) The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
(n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
(n.) Probability.
(v. i.) To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
(v. t.) To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
(v. t.) To befall; to happen to.
(a.) Happening by chance; casual.
(adv.) By chance; perchance.
阿琳整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Accident, casualty, contingency, fortuity, fortune, fortuitous event, unforseen event.[2]. Risk, hazard, peril, jeopardy.
v. n. Happen, occur, befall, betide, take place, fall out, turn up, come to pass.
汉尼巴尔手打
同義詞及反義詞：
[See HAZARD]
SYN:Accident, fortuity, hazard, haphazard, fortune, random, casualty, befoulment,luck
ANT:Law, rule, sequence, consequence, causation, effectuation, intention, purpose,design, certainty
校對:帕蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- We must begin, for Laura's sake, where there is the best chance of success, I replied. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Here was a fellow like Chettam with no chance at all. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I mean to have another chance yet. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The man knew her, and might by a fortunate chance see her, or hear of her; that was something, as enlisting one pair of eyes and ears the more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The chances were that that matter, too, was well known to him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And she surveyed her position, and its hopes, doubts, and chances. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We might hide among the great trees for a time, but the chances are small indeed for escape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- It was necessary to destroy his chances promptly. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Now Sophia, it so chanced, was fond of a slice of mutton. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- No one chanced to be about, and she got down to the hall in quiet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was considered very pleasant reading, but I never read more of it myself than the sentence on which I chanced to light on opening the book. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- At a second stop I met some highly cultivated people of the noble class and while in conversation we chanced to speak of Helium. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- If the wind had not chanced, in the position I occupied, to set it away from me, my exertions might have ended then and there. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It chanced that Shirley, the moment before, had been gazing from a window down on the park. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Chancing for an instant to look down, his glance rested on an uplifted face, flushed, smiling, happy, shaded with silky curls, lit with fine eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was drawing his hand from his breast; the prisoner chancing to look up in his hurried wonder as he wrote, the hand stopped, closing upon something. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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