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odds

/odz/US // ɒdz //UK // (ɒdz) //

赔率,几率,机率,机会

Related Words

difference差异,差别,区别,不同likelihood可能性,可能,可能的,可能的事vantage优点,优势,效益,利好draw绘制,画画,画,抽奖lead领导,导致,领先,牵头overlay覆盖物,覆盖层,覆盖面,覆盖handicap阻碍,障碍物,残障人士,障碍bulge突起,凸起,隆起,凸出disparity差距,差别,差异性,差异start开始,启动,开始吧,开启benefit效益,裨益,补助,效益方面edge边缘,边缘地带,边缘化,优势superiority优越性,优势,优越感,优异性distinction区别,区分,区别对待,差异dissimilarity异质性,异样,差异性,异样的allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助favor赞成,偏爱,宠爱,恩惠balance平衡,平衡性,余额,均衡chances机会,机遇,几率,的机会head start头开始,领先一步,头部开始,领先的起点

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else: The odds are that it will rain today.
    • : the ratio of probability that something is so, will occur, or is more likely to occur than something else.
    • : this ratio used as the basis of a bet; the ratio by which the bet of one party to a wager exceeds that of the other, granted by one of two betting opponents to equalize the chances favoring one of them: The odds are two-to-one that it won't rain today.
    • : an equalizing allowance, as that given the weaker person or team in a contest; handicap.
    • : an advantage or degree of superiority on the side of two contending parties; a difference favoring one of two contestants.
    • : an amount or degree by which one thing is better or worse than another.

Phrases

  • odds and ends
  • odds are, the
  • against all odds
  • at odds
  • by all odds
  • lay odds

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounadvantage
Synonyms
difference差异,差别,区别,不同allowance津贴,补贴,津补贴,补助benefit效益,裨益,补助,效益方面bulge突起,凸起,隆起,凸出disparity差距,差别,差异性,差异dissimilarity异质性,异样,差异性,异样的distinction区别,区分,区别对待,差异draw绘制,画画,画,抽奖edge边缘,边缘地带,边缘化,优势handicap阻碍,障碍物,残障人士,障碍lead领导,导致,领先,牵头overlay覆盖物,覆盖层,覆盖面,覆盖start开始,启动,开始吧,开启superiority优越性,优势,优越感,优异性vantage优点,优势,效益,利好head start头开始,领先一步,头部开始,领先的起点
nounprobability
Synonyms
likelihood可能性,可能,可能的,可能的事balance平衡,平衡性,余额,均衡chances机会,机遇,几率,的机会favor赞成,偏爱,宠爱,恩惠superiority优越性,优势,优越感,优异性toss-up折腾,抛出,抛球,投掷

Examples

  • No word on who will star, but given Moriarty’s strong connections to Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, the odds list toward a decidedly A-list cast.

  • It’s interesting that for all the obsession over who was the killer and the online odds rankings and guessing and all that, the series ends on the theme of how a community deals with pain and grief.

  • The odds of getting re-arrested are a lot slimmer if a person has a job.

  • In 1972, Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination.

  • But taking such action puts them at odds with the most powerful and best-organized segment of their coalition.

  • The rift put Washington at odds with countries like Brazil, Uruguay or Chile, which seemed to have come to terms with their past.

  • It had offered odds of 10-1 on the Queen abdicating during the Christmas message.

  • The cupidity of a man had evidently led him to collect together these odds and ends, and try to turn them to profitable account.

  • Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.

  • We made a good fight I know, the odds were in our favour and success seemed assured.

  • A stronger man would have fought against odds like those and won for himself a place that would suffer no denial.

  • Thus it was that he himself created the morale which enabled him again and again to conquer against overwhelming odds.

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