toss-up
短语
大学
n. 掷钱币, (成败各半的)相等机会
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词形变化
toss-ups
复数
toss-ups
别名
tossup
教材释义与例句
名词
掷钱币；难以定夺的事
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.
习语It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up.
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2.
Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
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3.
The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
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4.
A toss-up question.
词汇关系
同义词 1
上位词 4
词源
Deverbal from toss up.
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