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单词 by chance
释义

chance /chäns/

noun
  1. That which happens or results fortuitously, or without assignable cause
  2. Fortune
  3. An unexpected event
  4. Risk
  5. Opportunity
  6. Possibility of something happening
  7. (sometimes in pl) probability
  8. (in pl) misfortunes (archaic)
transitive verb

To risk

intransitive verb

To happen

adjective

Happening by chance

adverb

Perchance

ORIGIN: OFr cheance, from LL cadentia, from L cadere to fall

chanceˈful adjective

  1. Full of risk or danger (archaic)
  2. Full of chance(s)

chanceˈless adjective

Without an opportunity

chancˈer noun (informal)

An unscrupulous person prepared to seize any opportunity to make money or for his or her own advancement, an opportunist

chancˈily adverb

chancˈiness noun

chancˈy or chancˈey adjective

  1. Risky, uncertain
  2. Lucky, safe (Scot)

chanceˈ-comer noun

Someone who arrives by chance or unexpectedly

by chance

Accidentally

chance in a million

  1. The faintest possibility
  2. An opportunity not to be missed (also chance of a lifetime)

chance it or chance one's arm (or luck) (informal)

To take a chance, often recklessly or with little hope of success

chance upon or on

To find or come across by chance

chance would be a fine thing (informal)

There is not much hope of it

even chance

Equal probability for or against

how chance? (Shakespeare)

How does it happen that?

no chance or not a chance (informal)

That will not happen or succeed

on the off chance

In hope rather than expectation

stand a good chance

To have a reasonable expectation

take one's chance

  1. To accept what happens
  2. To risk an undertaking

the chances are

It is probable or likely

the main chance

The chief object or best opportunity (esp in the phrase have an eye to the main chance to be aware of opportunity for self-enrichment)

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