Probability
[prɒbə'bɪlɪtɪ] or ['prɑbə'bɪləti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; 'for a while mutiny seemed a probability'; 'going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost'.
(noun.) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; 'the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5'.
整理:米切尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood.
(n.) That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth.
(n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5.
埃文編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Likelihood, presumption, appearance of truth, fair chance, favorable chance.
手打:默文
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance
ANT:Unliklihood, improbability, impossibility, inconceivableness
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例句/造句/用法:
- Still, a person may hesitate about the probability of the son of a king being a philosopher. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- When you left Miss Verinder's sitting-room, with the jewel in your hand, you went back in all probability to your own room---- Yes? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- They were in all probability made by human communities quite out of touch with the Aryans, separately and independently. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Its probability and its eligibility have really so equalled each other! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Felix was too delicate to accept this offer; yet he looked forward to the probability of that event as to the consummation of his happiness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In his inmost heart he was not sorry to put himself beyond the probability of meeting Miss Bart. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I felt stunned, more by the sudden shock of such an idea being presented to my imagination as possible, than from conviction of its probability. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But in this situation, the superior vigilance and attention of a private adventurer would, in all probability, soon make them weary of the trade. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- I shall, in all probability, be back in a few hours, I said, and you will take care, as usual, to let no one inside the doors in my absence. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The red one in all probability cannot swim, I said, since there is scarce enough water in all their domains to float the tiniest craft. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- My whole future depended, in all probability, on my not losing possession of myself at that moment. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I see no probability in it, unless you have any better foundation than what you mention. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it, and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Who can measure probabilities against certainties? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- She has so rarely seen the thing done that the probabilities are strong the other way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Judged by mere worldly considerations and probabilities, his story is a very doubtful one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- And what are the probabilities as to the result of the contest? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Lydgate could now construct all the probabilities of the case. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He recapitulated the statements which Becky had made, pointed out the probabilities of their truth, and asserted his own firm belief in her innocence. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My second reflection is founded on those large probabilities, which the mind can judge of, and the minute differences it can observe betwixt them. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The probabilities are that our loss in killed was the heavier, as we were the attacking party. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I was in no position to try the probabilities on one side or on the other in this instance by any better test than the test of personal resemblance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- All three are in the region of dramatic system-making and myth, to which probabilities are irrelevant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Margaret was surprised to find an acceptance contemplated, after all she had learnt of sad probabilities during the day. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- From the stone age onward the probabilities are that man has always had some kind of bowling game. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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