chance

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈt͡ʃɑːns/|[ˈt͡ʃʰɑːns]    美 /ˈt͡ʃeə̯ns/|[ˈt͡ʃʰeə̯ns]|/ˈt͡ʃɛə̯ns/|[ˈt͡ʃʰɛə̯ns]|/ˈt͡ʃeːns/|[ˈt͡ʃʰeːns]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An opportunity or possibility. countable
    — We had the chance to meet the president last week: we have a good/strong chance of making / to make a profit.
  2. Random occurrence; luck. uncountable
    — Why leave it to chance when a few simple steps will secure the desired outcome?
  3. The probability of something happening. countable
    — There is a 30 percent chance of rain tomorrow.
  4. probability; possibility. countable,plural,uncountable
    — Sometimes the name is changed because it is thought to be unlucky. If "Chua" is ill, the chances are that there are certain spirits who do not like his name, so the parents alter his name to "Mee," or something else, and then he gets well again.
  5. What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate. archaic,countable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To happen by chance, to occur. archaic,intransitive
    — It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.
  2. To befall; to happen to. archaic,transitive
    — […] while the King and Godwine sate at the table, accompanied with others of the nobilitie, it chanced the cupbearer (as he brought wine to the bourd) to slip with the one foote, and yet by good strength of his other leg, to recover himselfe without falling […]
  3. To try or risk.
    — Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?
  4. To discover something by chance.
    — He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.
  5. To rob, cheat or swindle someone. Belize
    — The car broke down a week after I bought it. I was chanced by that fast-talking salesman.
  6. To take an opportunity from someone; to cut a queue. Nigeria
形容词 adj.
  1. Happening by chance, casual. not-comparable
    — No crowd was about the door; no people were discernible at any of the many windows; not even a chance passer-by was in the street. An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there.
副词 adv.
  1. Perchance; perhaps. not-comparable,obsolete

词形变化

chances plural chaunce alternative,obsolete chaunce alternative,obsolete chaunce alternative,obsolete chances present,singular,third-person chancing participle,present chanced participle,past chanced past chaunce alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
come to pass occur transpire come on come upon encounter stumble upon fool trick
衍生词
bechance blow one's chance Buckley's chance by any chance by chance cat in hell's chance cat's chance in hell chanceable chance acquaintance chance card chance'd be a fine thing chance fracture chanceful chanceless chancely chance-medley chance passenger chancer chances are chance the ducks chancewise chance would be a fine thing chancy Chinaman's chance Chinaman's chance in hell Come By Chance dog's chance even chance fair chance fat chance fighting chance first-chance exception game of chance give chance to half a chance half-chance happenchance happy chance in with a chance jump at the chance jump on the chance last chance last chance saloon leave to chance main chance mum chance no chance not a chance off chance off-chance on the off chance outside chance overchance perchance second chance shutter chance slim chance smart chance snowball's chance snowball's chance in an oven snowball's chance in heck snowball's chance in hell snowflake's chance in hell sporting chance stand a chance take a chance take one's chance unchance wanchance chance on chance one's arm chance upon unchanced

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English chancen, chauncen, from the noun (see above).
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