chance

chance

英[tʃɑːns]美[tʃæns]

n.可能性，机会，风险，意外；

adj.偶然的，意外的；

v.偶然发生，冒险；

复数：chances;

第三人称单数：chances;

过去式：chanced;

过去分词：chanced;

现在分词：chancing;

例句

Look at this traffic! I’m afraid we haven’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of getting to the airport in time.看看有多少车！恐怕我们根本没有指望能及时赶到机场。

She played left-handed to give her opponent a fair chance.她用左手进行比赛以给对手一个较大的机会。

He missed out on a chance to go to college because of his ill health.他因身体不好, 失去了上大学的机会。

If I had a chance to go to Japan, I'd take it like a shot.如果我有机会去日本, 我会乐意接受。

This is a chance that can't in nature be missed.这是一个绝不能失去的机会。

I won't take a chance on a July holiday in Britain—it always rains.我不会冒险在7月份去英国度假——那时天老是下雨!

I heard their talking by chance.我偶然听到他们的谈话。

I met her quite by chance.我遇见她完全是偶然的。

he behaved badly in school; he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister; behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room.他在学校里很淘气；他淘气地寻找机会让他的姐姐难堪；他在来客人时表现得很顽皮，所以被送进了自己的房间里。

I know it’s going to be tough, but I think I’m in with a sporting chance of winning.我知道会很难，但是我想我还是有相当大的获胜机会。

英语六级真题

It's not a chance you're going to have throughout your lifetime.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

Take your average trade union member, chances are they will be politically motivated and be used to collective action— much like Erica Gregory.

According to a marketing executive, many students from low-income families don't know they could have a chance of going to an elite university.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

Third, give learners the chance to compare and contrast good and bad solutions to the problems.

There is no chance that will change anytime soon, even if the government creates a better social safety net and successfully encourages greater consumer spending.

Workers were not allowed to use the phone or send e-mail, but simply had the chance to clear their heads and to hear themselves think

Greater chances for individual development.

To create chances for the poor.

Such programs can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

By capping her grades at 94 while most other teachers grade on a scale that tops out at 100, your teacher could jeopardize a student's chance of getting a scholarship or getting into a top college.

Do you by any chance have a car available?

Bob does not have much chance to win.

It's a rare chance for them to see the boss lose face.

If you are having these types of coffee regularly then they will increase the chances of you becoming overweight, which in turn increases your risk of developing cancer, as well as other diseases such as heart disease.

A bonus with the "keep-moving principle" is that while we keep moving, we don't have a chance to worry?

As stories go through the chains of people, they are refined, corrected and sorted out until they come finally to me and I have a chance to read through most stories before I go on the air.

Even though Spooner screams "Save her! Save her!", the robot rescues him because it calculates that he has a 45 percent chance of survival compared to Sarah's 11 percent.

In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional Mri machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.

Of course, sometimes things happen at the last moment and I don't have a chance.

On the contrary, the Perusine Cafe offers a great experience for children, a chance for them to learn about rabbits, and how to take care of them.

Open science also offers junior researchers the chance to level the playing field by gaining better access to crucial data.

Our attitudes allow us to turn mistakes into opportunities, and loss into the chance for new beginnings.

Researches have found that it gives us a chance to think about our goals and it also seems to increase creativity.

Take plenty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chance to do some preliminary consolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.

The Cascadia Rising drill gives area residents and emergency responders a chance to practice what to do in case of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami along one of the nation’s dangerous—and underestimated—faults.

There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of finding a new job.

These products aren't habit-forming by chance; it's by design.

We have no chance of competing against machines on frequent high-volume tasks, but there are things we can do that machines cannot.

When the birds forget to retrieve their food—and they do sometimes—a seedling has a chance to grow.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-VAR

可能(性);机会

If there is a chance of something happening, it is possible that it will happen.

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N-COUNT

机会;机遇

If you have a chance to do something, you have the opportunity to do it.

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ADJ

偶然的;意外的;凑巧的

A chance meeting or event is one that is not planned or expected.

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VERB

碰巧(做);偶然发现

If you chance to do something or chance on something, you do it or find it although you had not planned or tried to.

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VERB

冒…的险

If you chance something, you do it even though there is a risk that you may not succeed or that something bad may happen.

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PHRASE

偶然;碰巧

Something that happens by chance was not planned by anyone.

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PHRASE

(用以询问某事是否属实)会不会，可能

You can use by any chance when you are asking questions in order to find out whether something that you think might be true is actually true.

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PHRASE

有可能;有机会

If you say that someone stands a chance of achieving something, you mean that they are likely to achieve it. If you say that someone doesn't stand a chance of achieving something, you mean that they cannot possibly achieve it.

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PHRASE

冒险;碰运气

When you take a chance, you try to do something although there is a large risk of danger or failure.

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英汉词典释义

n.

机会; 时机; 机遇

某事发生的可能性

无任何可见到的或可了解的原因而发生的情况; 碰运气的事; 运气

风险；冒险

偶然；碰巧；意外

vi.

偶然发生; 碰巧

冒险; 拿…去冒风险

adj.

意外的；偶然的；碰巧的

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances;

2. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

3. a risk involving danger;

4. a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur;

Verb

1. be the case by chance;

2. take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

3. come upon, as if by accident; meet with;

Adjective

1. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance;

行业词典

哲学： 偶然性；