odds 的定义
- 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.
odds 近义词
advantage
probability
odds 的近义词 6 个
odds 的反义词 3 个
由odds构成的短语
- odds and ends
- odds are, the
- against all odds
- at odds
- by all odds
- lay odds
更多odds例句
- 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.