Contingency
[kən'tɪndʒ(ə)nsɪ] or [kən'tɪndʒənsi]
解釋/意思:
(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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同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Accidentalness, fortuity, uncertainty.[2]. Casualty, accident, incident, occurrence, event.
編輯:马克斯
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ACCIDENT]
錄入:佩内洛普
例句/造句/用法:
- The fact is the constitution did not apply to any such contingency as the one existing from 1861 to 1865. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Alcibiades & Company that Justinian was far too wide awake not to have thought of this contingency, and had made his preparations in consequence. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- General Scott at once began the preparation of orders, regulations and laws in view of this contingency. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Its framers never dreamed of such a contingency occurring. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Your estimates for this contingency should be made at once. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The latter contingency seemed improbable, yet Lily was not without a sense of uneasiness. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seemed like a rising above the dreariness of actuality, the monotony of contingencies. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- So many strange contingencies are improbable in the highest degree. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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