| 单词 | hazard |
| 释义 | hazard —hazardable, adj. —hazarder, n. —hazardless, adj. /haz"euhrd/, n. 1. an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards. 2. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty: the many hazards of the big city. 3. the absence or lack of predictability; chance; uncertainty: There is an element of hazard in the execution of the most painstaking plans. 4. Golf. a bunker, sand trap, or the like, constituting an obstacle. 5. the uncertainty of the result in throwing a die. 6. a game played with two dice, an earlier and more complicated form of craps. 7. Court Tennis. any of the winning openings. 8. (in English billiards) a stroke by which the player pockets the object ball (winning hazard) or his or her own ball after contact with another ball (losing hazard). 9. at hazard, at risk; at stake; subject to chance: His reputation was at hazard in his new ventures. v.t. 10. to offer (a statement, conjecture, etc.) with the possibility of facing criticism, disapproval, failure, or the like; venture: He hazarded a guess, with trepidation, as to her motives in writing the article. 11. to put to the risk of being lost; expose to risk: In making the investment, he hazarded all his savings. 12. to take or run the risk of (a misfortune, penalty, etc.): Thieves hazard arrest. 13. to venture upon (anything of doubtful issue): to hazard a dangerous encounter. [1250-1300; ME hasard < OF, perh. < Ar al-zahr the die] Syn. 1. See danger. 3. accident, fortuity, fortuitousness. 11. stake, endanger, peril, imperil. Ant. 1. safety. |
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