| 单词 | to one |
| 释义 | > as lemmas—— to one (against) a. —— to one (against): an expression of the odds in favour of (or against) something happening.a million to one: see million adj. and n. Phrases 1.Quot. 1583 refers to the proportion of those who ‘forsake the Lorde’ compared with those who do not. ΚΠ 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vii. 357 A thousande to one we forsake the Lorde.] a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 72 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. v. 31 It is so many Million of millions of odds to one against any single throw, that the assigned Order will not be cast. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 189 It would be a thousand to one but he would repent his Choice. 1876 O. W. Holmes How Old Horse won Bet in Poems (1884) 309 I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 165 I could have got seven to one against Saint Amant a fortnight before. 1952 E. J. Pratt in R. Brown & D. Bennett Anthol. Canad. Lit. in Eng. (1982) I. 299 What though the odds were nine to one against, And the Dead March was undertoning trumpets. 1987 Down East Nov. 13/1 It's a gambling scam where the odds for losing your bucks are a thousand to one. < as lemmas |
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