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chances

/chans, chahns/US // tʃæns, tʃɑns //UK // (tʃɑːns) //

机会,机遇,几率,的机会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
    • : luck or fortune: a game of chance.
    • : a possibility or probability of anything happening: a fifty-percent chance of success.
    • : an opportune or favorable time; opportunity: Now is your chance.
    • : Baseball. an opportunity to field the ball and make a put-out or assist.
    • : a risk or hazard: Take a chance.
    • : a share or ticket in a lottery or prize drawing: The charity is selling chances for a dollar each.
    • : chances, probability: The chances are that the train hasn't left yet.
    • : Midland and Southern U.S. a quantity or number.
    • : Archaic. an unfortunate event; mishap.
v.无主动词 verb
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    chanced, chanc·ing.

    • : to happen or occur by chance: It chanced that our arrivals coincided.
v.有主动词 verb
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    chanced, chanc·ing.

    • : to take the chances or risks of; risk: I'll have to chance it, whatever the outcome.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : not planned or expected; accidental: a chance occurrence.
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    • : chance on / upon to come upon by chance; meet unexpectedly: She chanced on a rare kind of mushroom during her walk through the woods.

Phrases

  • chance it
  • chance on
  • by chance
  • Chinaman's chance
  • eye to the main chance
  • fat chance
  • fighting chance
  • jump at (the chance)
  • not have an earthly chance
  • on the (off) chance
  • snowball's chance in hell
  • sporting chance
  • stand a chance
  • take a chance
  • take one's chances

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfate, luck
Synonyms
advantage优势break突破,休息,断裂,断future未来,未来的,今后,今后的hit撞击,冲击,撞击声,敲击lot很多,地段,大量,批量odds赔率,几率,机率,机会outcome结果,成果,结果是,结果是什么risk风险,危险,危险性,风险提示accident事故,意外事故,意外,意外事件adventure冒险,探险,历险,冒险之旅cast铸造,浇铸,铸就,浇注casualty伤员,伤亡人员,伤者,伤亡者coincidence巧合,偶然性,巧合的是,偶发事件contingency突发事件,应变,应急,应急措施destination目的地,终点,景点,目的地destiny命运,缘分,天命,命中注定doom祸事,灾难,祸害,毁灭fluke侥幸,侥幸心理,蛭子,侥幸的是fortuity偶然性,偶然的机会,巧合,偶然fortune财富,运气,命运,幸运gamble赌钱,赌一把,赌博,博弈hap恰好,恰恰相反,恰巧,恰好相反happening发生的事情,发生了,发生的事,发生的事件hazard危害,危害性,风险,危险kismet因果关系,缘分,因果报应,命中注定lottery彩票,抽奖,开奖,抽奖活动misfortune厄运,祸患,不幸,祸害occurrence发生的情况,发生率,发生的事情,出现的情况peradventure历险记,冒险,历险peril险情,险境,危险,危难providence天意,天命,天赐良机,旨意toss-up折腾,抛出,抛球,投掷bad luck坏运气,运气不好,厄运,运气不佳even chance均等机会,均等的机会,均匀的机会,均势good luck好运,好运气,好运连连,好運haphazard胡乱,胡乱地,乱七八糟的,乱七八糟heads or tails头或尾,正反面,正反两面,正反两方面in the cards在牌,在牌中,在卡上,在牌上luck out运气好,运气好的时候,运气,运气好的话lucky break幸运的突破,运气好的时候,幸运之举,走运stroke of luck幸运之举,运气,运气好的时候,运气好throw of the dice掷骰子,骰子游戏,掷骰子游戏,骰子turn of the cards转牌,翻牌,牌局的转变,转变牌局way the cookie crumbles饼干碎裂的方式,饼干的碎裂方式,饼干碎屑的方式,曲奇饼干的方式wheel of fortune幸运之轮,幸运轮,幸运转盘,风水轮流转
verbrisk, endanger

Examples

  • Few of those who say they are “probably” going to vote for one candidate say there is a “chance” they would vote for the other candidate, suggesting that some of these “swing” voters may not vote on Election Day, the pollsters said.

  • In Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court voted on a strict party line, with the court’s two Republicans partially dissenting, writing in a separate opinion that the Green Party ticket should have been given a chance to fix its paperwork.

  • The news was bleak—Paul would need a kidney transplant if he had any chance of living a long life.

  • Clearly, some state polls missed the mark in 2016, leading forecasts to assume he had less of a chance of winning than he did.

  • When the NHL playoffs began, the bookmakers didn’t give the Dallas Stars much of a chance to win the Stanley Cup.

  • 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.