Odds
[ɒdz] or [ɑdz]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring.
(noun.) the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; 'he offered odds of two to one'.
錄入:欧文--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) 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.
(a.) Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phrase at odds.
錄入:洛根
同義詞及近義詞：
n. sing. & pl. Difference, disparity, inequality.
編輯:马丁
例句/造句/用法:
- His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- That makes no odds. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A day makes no such odds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The odds are enormous against its being coincidence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Give out by driblets, and never inquire for odds and ends,--it isn't beSt. That troubles me, Augustine. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- What odds, dear boy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- What's the odds where it comes from? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It's too bad, for there is no time to make other things, and I don't want to fill up with odds and ends. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What odds in that? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Never, until I saw you fight, had I seen one who seemed unconquerable even in the face of great odds. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The odds sheets showed he would pay thirty-five to one. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- There's no great odds betwixt us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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