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chance-medley

/chans-med-lee, chahns-/US // ˈtʃænsˌmɛd li, ˈtʃɑns- //

机会混搭

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Law.

    • : a killing occurring during a sudden and unpredicted encounter.
    • : aimless and random action.

Examples

  • With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.

  • At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.

  • Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

  • Do those things," he said,  "and you'll have half a chance of being successful.

  • Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.

  • If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.

  • Instead of giving you a chance to say, "He has made a mistake," he forced you to say, "He has shown how to get out of a mistake."

  • Few of us there are who would not gladly read and speak several more languages if we had the chance of doing so.

  • In running over many words, the intellect might be arrested by chance.

  • But it was my only chance then; or rather I had seen enough of business to avoid making mistakes when I could.