chance
n. 机会, 意外, 可能性 vi. 偶然发生 vt. 冒险
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教材释义与例句
机会，际遇；运气，侥幸；可能性
the possibility that something will happen, especially something you want
偶然发生；冒……的险
to do something that you know involves a risk
释义与例句
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An opportunity or possibility.
机会
可数 不可数We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.
There was a fat/slim chance that my letter would arrive in time.
If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."
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Random occurrence; luck.
不可数 可数Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
My whole life seems to be ruled by blind chance.
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The probability of something happening.
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可数 不可数There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
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probability; possibility.
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What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
古体 可数 不可数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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To happen by chance, to occur.
古体 不及物It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
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To befall; to happen to.
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To try or risk.
Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
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To discover something by chance.
He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
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To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
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To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue.
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Happening by chance, casual.
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Perchance; perhaps.
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From Middle English chance, cheance, chaunce, cheaunce, a borrowing from Old French cheance (“accident, chance, luck”), from Vulgar Latin *cadentia (“falling”), from Latin cadere (“to fall, to die, to happen, occur”). Doublet of cadence and cadenza.
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