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Definition of chance in English: chancenoun tʃɑːnstʃæns 1A possibility of something happening. 可能性 there is a chance of winning the raffle 有赢得抽奖的可能性。 mass noun there is little chance of his finding a job 他找到工作的可能性极小。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm a realist and I don't think we're in with a chance, but we won't be far behind.
- He believed the more people there were, the better chance there was going to be a party.
- Even more revealing are statistics concerning the lifetime chances of going to prison.
- Large-scale cooperative ventures stand the best chance for success, difficult though cooperation may be.
- Things can change, but none of these teams look like having a realistic chance of progressing through the play-offs.
- Now is the time to get your tickets for the monthly community draw and be in with a chance to get your hands on some great money prizes.
- I'm always singing around the house and can't believe I could be in with a chance to let the nation vote for my voice.
- Baby Gabi was born three-and-a-half months premature and was given only a 25 percent chance of survival.
- But, in reality neither have a snowball's chance in hell of going through.
- Therefore, allocations that specify this flag have a greater chance of succeeding.
- There is also a realistic chance of progressing to compete on the big stage.
- We are back in with a chance against the losers of the provincial finals.
- It is a good draw with all the teams in with a chance of qualification.
- Bolton girls are once again being given the opportunity to win the chance of a glamorous modelling career.
- To Mike it seemed that Katie was his last real chance at happiness.
- There's no real prize, just instant fame and the slim chance of surviving one more season.
- And I think there's still a twenty, thirty percent chance of our succeeding.
- No-one else who has looked at footage of the incident believes the Rangers forward had even a chance of making an opportunity.
- Predictably, these eggs especially have a slim chance of surviving on the over-crowded beach if they are not rescued.
- Critically ill infants born outside the capital are being given a fighting chance of survival through a national transport programme.
Synonyms possibility, prospect, probability, odds, likelihood, likeliness, expectation, anticipation, conceivability, feasibility, plausibility risk, threat, menace, hazard, danger, fear, peril, liability hope, opportunity, promise - 1.1chances The probability of something desirable happening.
可能性 he played down his chances of becoming chairman 他对自己担当主席的可能性轻描淡写。 Example sentencesExamples - Also, we have evolved to allow the best possible chances of survival and reproduction.
- I once asked her what the chances were of me meeting a Vampire and living to tell about it.
- If they're elected for a second term and chances are they would be, it's time to finish the job.
- This time, despite the reservations already mentioned, Woods' chances are far better.
- Those of you planning a holiday, chances are you will find yourself at a beach resort.
- So if you're not looking for it, and are not unprepared, the chances are you will have a holiday romance.
- Both sides will fancy their chances of progressing to the final on St. Patrick's Day.
- Had he scored, the chances are Hibs could probably have added another chapter to their hard-luck story.
- If she were freed, her presence would give a huge boost to her party's chances in the elections.
- If you have answered Yes to any two, the chances are that you are an alcoholic.
- Garry is upbeat about the club's chances of staying in business.
- Fifty years ago, the chances were you would court and marry someone you met at school or at a local dance.
- That risk figure is calculated on the basis that you figure out what can go wrong and what the chances are of that happening.
- The youth team captain remains hugely upbeat about his sides' chances in the upcoming tournament.
- If you don't like the cold then chances are ice carving probably isn't the job for you.
- If the target of your affections returns your gaze for more than a second, chances are they're interested.
- No matter how clear the course may look in front, the chances are that if you play as fast as you can as a single you will catch someone up sooner or later.
- What do you think the chances are of that happening and what would be the effect if he did?
- If you have got a jazz poster at home the chances are it's a Wolff photograph.
- Yet at 30, a woman's chances of conceiving begin to decline.
Synonyms likelihood, probability, chances, balance - 1.2in singular An opportunity to do or achieve something.
机会 I gave her a chance to answer 我给了她作答的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - We are offering readers the chance to discover the answer to the three questions they would most like to ask the TV conman.
- A golden chance to achieve success and happiness in life, that does exist in a world of realities.
- There are many strengths with medicine, and it saves lives, gives people a second chance.
- They will also get the chance to achieve health and safety, management and hygiene certificates.
- It was a lack of putting touch that cost Ashworth the chance of achieving his long-held dream of playing in The Open.
- The defense did not induce a turnover and the offense has achieved the chance to shoot.
- Padraig had a great goal chance in the opening half.
- As he acknowledged, he was once more drinking in the last chance saloon.
- Every child deserves the best possible chance at life.
- He sees a money making opportunity and a chance to expand an empire.
- Most people would agree that Castle-dermot deserves the chance to achieve this potential.
- Unfortunately for Shanahoe their cause was not helped by missing some easy scoring chances in this second half.
- The Barbarians game I see as an opportunity too; a chance to earn selection for the home tests in June.
- Together these parties have a chance of achieving an electoral breakthrough that has eluded the left for six decades.
- Does Jesus not say in the Bible about giving people a second chance?
- I came here because I saw a fantastic business opportunity and a chance to make a real difference.
- Alvarez had another good chance in the 20th minute.
- Still, Carramore looked the better balanced team but many chances were squandered.
- But in the middle of all this Martin had missed those two glorious goal chances for Dublin.
- Now, after playing in two losing grand finals, he has the chance to achieve what he really wants in football.
Synonyms opportunity, opening, occasion, turn, time, moment, window (of opportunity), slot North American & Australian/New Zealand show Canadian a kick at the can/cat informal break, shot, look-in
2mass noun The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause. 偶然，巧合 he met his brother by chance 他巧遇自己的兄弟。 Example sentencesExamples - Never wanting to be actively involved in politics, television happened by chance.
- Burlison invented fuzz by chance when he accidentally dropped his amplifier to the floor before a gig.
- Purely by chance, she chose a colour that would never go out of fashion.
- Surely this was a discrepancy that could not have arisen by chance, and is proof positive of a systematic bias amounting to racism.
- P, the manager of Cafe Bastille on Belden Lane, by chance of fate is also our neighbour.
- I was at Mosport by chance at a private event for providing on-track coaching to owners of some very exotic cars.
- He then, by chance, saw the noticeboard at the Volunteer Bureau advertising for drivers and stopped to find out more.
- This album will turn up, by chance, in the hidden trove of the reseller of Cabrera Infante's books.
- Of course, there are beautiful scenes and views in nature, but that happens by chance.
- The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net.
- Do you by chance happen to know any art gallery owners secretly aspiring to be Don King?
- Yet this contract came about in some respects purely by chance.
- Do such events occur simply by chance or do they reflect a genetic programme that can be activated by specific signals?
- If a result is significant, it means that you're pretty sure that it's unlikely to have happened by chance.
- A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident.
- How Frank got involved in the initiative came about completely by chance.
- Devolution was neither inevitable nor did it happen by chance, but rather as the result of a positive choice for change.
- Both his career as a novelist and his move to America happened by chance.
- Murray and Johansson are brought together by chance, their lives intersecting in the hotel.
- However, he wasn't affected by the poison because he drank some tea by chance, which was an antidote.
Synonyms accident, coincidence, serendipity, fate, a twist of fate, destiny, fortuity, fortune, providence, freak, hazard a piece of good fortune, (a bit of) luck, (a bit of) good luck, a fluke, a happy chance North American happenstance fortuitously, by accident, accidentally, coincidentally, serendipitously, unintentionally, inadvertently unwittingly, unknowingly, unawares, unconsciously
adjective tʃɑːnstʃæns attributive Fortuitous; accidental. 偶然的，碰巧的 邂逅。 Example sentencesExamples - I wouldn't hang my hat on saying it was such a chance encounter.
- She now runs a boutique and recounts how a chance encounter changed her life.
- In 1936, a chance meeting placed Johnson on the path to his destiny.
- Secondly, there must be a chance meeting between the right female and male.
verb tʃɑːnstʃæns 1no object, with infinitive Do something by accident or without intending to. 偶然；碰巧 he was very effusive if they chanced to meet 他们若是巧遇，他总会表现得热情过头。 Example sentencesExamples - One night he began to speak about the great warrior god who lived on the moon, and as he spoke, the girl chanced to look up in the sky.
- She chanced to glance up, and their eyes met, both smiling quickly.
- Nobody I have ever chanced to meet has ever played the cards as well as Evelyn.
- She was travelling just behind, and chanced to see the youth on the track with bleeding injuries.
- Maybe in all of his handling of it, he'd finally chanced to accidentally turn it on.
- Till one day when he chanced to visit a town called River City where he met a music teacher who also worked as a librarian.
- Venu chanced to read a poem on the art form by noted poet O.N.V. Kurup while making a documentary on ONV.
- On reaching into my shoulder-bag to locate my wallet my hands chanced to touch the package of shells.
- A lovely gentle soul, Mary was truly one of the ‘old stock’ and she had a warm welcome for all who chanced to visit the family home.
- It had been completely dissected before someone chanced to recognize it.
- A short while ago, I chanced to be in Dallas making a documentary film.
- I chanced to hear about the temple from my uncle.
- Until the other day when I chanced to be reading an Internet message board, I never realized something very silly about it.
- White wondered silently if this man he chanced to meet in the desert were really as well intending as he seemed to be.
- She chanced to see the dance there and took to it like fish to water.
- It lacks the stunning volcano view of their pad in the Philippines, which was completely buried in grey ash by a huge, unforeseen eruption three days after they chanced to vacate it.
- No dwellings of any sort where someone might chance to see how she met her end.
- Most of those who chanced to hear the broadcast by sheer accident, took down their long forgotten radios and transistor sets, and tuned in to the new station on 105.8 MHz.
- When he was in school, Eldhose chanced to read Dr. Salim Ali's landmark book.
- Stopping by the grocers for a carton of yogurt, I chanced to be behind a small red-haired woman who held up her young son for the clerk's inspection.
- 1.1chance upon/on/across Find or see by accident.
碰巧发现，偶然看见 he chanced upon an interesting advertisement 他偶然看见一则有趣的广告。 Example sentencesExamples - Jim then finds others before chancing on a military outpost in the north.
- Many a time, while searching through a pile of seemingly obscure books, one chances upon a real gem.
- I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
- In chancing upon her subject's scrapbooks and photographs, Seymour hit the kind of paydirt of which most biographers can only dream.
- Following particularly caddish behaviour from the cad of the novel, Tansy embarks on a solo trip around the world, during which she chances upon a number of people, doesn't like any of them, then discovers they're not so very bad after all.
- The deputy chairman of HBOS frequently used to talk about the tedium of looking around on the floor searching for pennies - and the excitement of chancing upon the occasional 50p piece.
- The scene they were filming in King Street saw Ian, who plays Billy Connolly's butler in the movie, chancing upon Garfield in a London street (rather like in the film Elizabeth, York is pretending to be London).
- Leave the long queue for the short one and you get the supermarket assistant chancing across her long-lost sister.
- As from next year, there will be no domestic coverage of Test cricket, so no opportunity for hungover passers-by to accidentally chance upon such a thriller.
- The belief is that chancing upon a coin in the heap would usher in good fortune for the coming year.
- Swanson took up kiting after chancing on a kite festival as he drove through Lauder a decade ago.
- However, it was not difficult to meet people simply by wandering through the bush and chancing upon scattered huts and houses.
- So I have converted 60 people to the cause (some of those people may just have chanced across the site by accident - looking up kinky octopuses no doubt).
- I rather serendipitously chanced onto a career with the National Park Service in 1971 at the Fort Laramie National Historic Site.
- His courtship of antique cameras also had lucky breaks like chancing upon photographers closing shop, selling him their equipment at bargain prices and friends and acquaintances also passing him on old cameras.
- One of the things I like most is chancing upon a salesman trying desperately to sell an item that no-one, but no-one is stupid enough to want to buy.
- A perfect face for a camera to capture, or so thought one photographer, who for the past decade has been taking pictures of the Montrose netters after chancing upon them while on holiday.
- The answer had become clear to Eaton last night, when he had chanced upon Clara comforting Will after Rebecca's accident.
- His output roams through jazz, techno, ambient, classical and world music, chancing upon unique hybrids en route.
- Here's a tip - the likelihood of your boss wanting to google your name is almost as likely as them chancing across a copy of your book in the bargain bins at Borders.
Synonyms come across, run across, run into, happen on, hit on, light on, come upon, stumble on, blunder on, find by chance, meet (by chance) informal bump into archaic run against
2informal with object Do (something) despite its being dangerous or of uncertain outcome. 〈非正式〉冒险做（某事） they chanced a late holiday 他们冒险度了个晚假。 Example sentencesExamples - The only game I ever chanced it on was the dart game.
- Was he a highly-charged risk-taker who, away from his family, had chanced all on a madcap, criminal adventure?
- Even so, the latest in what may well be an endless series was chancing it a bit.
- He says the days of drink-driving being seen as the older man's problem are long gone, and more younger people are now chancing the breathalyser, partly because of stronger and larger drinks.
- I realise I'm chancing my neck, so I'll be logging on and off to make sure I get the right result - did I type that out loud?
- Like every sold-out library event I've done in the last few years, there were still some empty seats and the people who came along and chanced a standby all got in.
- Upon chancing a nibble, however, I felt that it could have done with a little bit more of the basics, namely salt and pepper.
- He knew he might have chanced it once but he wouldn't have tried it the second time!
- Also chancing an icy swim were regulars from a Ryedale pub who resurrected a New Year tradition with a dip in the River Derwent.
- Children as young as eight and nine have been spotted chancing dangerous tightrope walks across the poles which rise up to 30 ft above the ground.
- I don't feel like chancing it, so I'm looking for an alternative exit strategy.
- Instead she was outside in the spring sunshine - chancing it amongst the skyscrapers.
- I chanced a look up and Liam smiled uncertainly at me.
- My own judgement is that he is chancing it when he presents conservative estimates of forest and species loss, rather than simply challenging the excesses of environmentalists.
- I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
- How can today's business leaders take the risks necessary to pursue rapid growth without also chancing the wrath of disappointed shareholders - and potentially devastating legal action?
- ‘We have had a number of incidents of motorists chancing it and driving though flooded roads and breaking down,’ he said.
- To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility.
- Terrified to take my eyes off the road, I chanced a look, and saw a car full of guys.
- Chancing a look in his direction, Eve observed that he was grinning.
Synonyms risk, hazard, venture, try, try one's luck with formal essay
Phrases as chance would have it, we were going camping that weekend Example sentencesExamples - But as chance would have it, that's exactly what happened.
- But, as chance would have it, he encountered the young Kadi when he visited.
- But, of course, as chance would have it, Rick came into Kieran's life at almost the same time.
- The two plays are in no way connected but, as chance would have it, the hair salon visited by Picasso is now a café.
- All a bit negative, so as a columnist, I wanted to seek out a more positive view of the game, and as chance would have it, I ended up enjoying coffee with one of Norway's most celebrated authors, Thorvald Steen.
- And, as chance would have it, it was the day I had to drive to Somerset and back, taking Graham off for a few days of relief bar-work so he could top off his bike fund.
- People come from far and wide to sample their fish'n'chips, so we were just expecting to get some take out - but as chance would have it there was one table free, the fabled Window Seat!
- Joining him in the Top Banana cast will be John Davitt and Christina Newton, a York actress as chance would have it.
- There was no forensic evidence but as chance would have it at about 2am a neighbour saw a man whom he knew by sight and first name visiting the property.
- Anyway, as chance would have it, while surfing the web today I came across an old poem called the Desiderata, written in the early part of the last century.
Possibly (used in tentative enquiries or suggestions) 万一，也许（用于试探性的询问或提议） were you looking for me by any chance? 你有可能是在找我吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Is this an anti-capitalism statement, by any chance?
- Do they plan late night music bars by any chance?
- They wouldn't have a socialist government, by any chance, would they?
- They would not be Left-leaning by any chance, would they?
- Did you take your own legal advice, by any chance?
- Is Michelle still working there, by any chance?
- If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream.
- Could you, by any chance, bring a huge umbrella next year?
- Does he, by any chance, come from a naval family?
- Are you all feeling a sense of impending doom by any chance?
Synonyms please, kindly, be so good as to
chance one's arm (or luck) informal Undertake something although it may be dangerous or unsuccessful. 〈英，非正式〉冒险一试 the ferryman decided not to chance his luck in the storm Example sentencesExamples - I usually leave them to chance their luck in the garden through the winter, and although they coped with the very wet winter we had last year, I wonder if they will be so fortunate this year.
- In England aspiring trainers are thought to need a lot of money behind them, whereas many in Ireland get their grounding by working as stable lads, riding as amateurs and then chancing their arm with a handful of horses.
- The striker tried to claim it had crossed the line, but he was really chancing his arm when he raised it in appeal.
- The emergence of ‘no-win no-fee’ law firms makes this ‘chancing your luck’ possible.
- As Mr Forrester had no change, he chanced his arm and didn't get a parking permit, knowing that parking would be free after 6pm.
- They added 78 together in 14 overs with Gale chancing his luck until Benkenstein ran him out.
- Young and old also chanced their arm at bowling and archery.
- An Inland Revenue source said: ‘Droger was just chancing his arm.’
- It is quite clear he was chancing his arm with a woman whose partner he knew was inside and to see how far he could go.
- How about chancing your arm on a couple of spells?
Synonyms wager, gamble, stake, risk, venture, hazard, chance, lay down, put, place
chance would be a fine thing informal Expressing a speaker's belief that something is desirable but the opportunity is unlikely to arise. 〈非正式〉成功固然好，只惜良机少 ‘You should come to the cafe with us.’ ‘Chance would be a fine thing.’ Example sentencesExamples - I'm still thrashing Mr L., not literally, although the chance would be a fine thing indeed…
- The chance would be a fine thing given the fickleness of British weather.
- Some Iraqis might think that the chance would be a fine thing.
- But chance would be a fine thing, say Labour MPs.
- Now I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing the tattooed one getting it on with the other one, but a nagging little voice in my ear says chance would be a fine thing.
- Nobody wants a police state - chance would be a fine thing with the human rights brigade always waiting to pounce - but how would those who voted against the 90-day clause feel if there was yet another terrorist attack?
- Probably not, but the chance would be a fine thing!
- Actually, I am rather proud of my culinary skills, but as regards the boudoir, well chance would be a fine thing.
- The chance would be a fine thing - with Wellington boots on!
- Okay that's your lot for a few days while I sit in a cold bath trying to recover what's left of my ears - chance would be a fine thing.
Have the possibility of success or victory. 有（成功或生存的）希望 he is still in with a chance of winning the dance competition Example sentencesExamples - "I knew I might have been in with a chance, but never expected to win," he added.
- All question papers must be returned by September 1 to be in with a chance of claiming one of the prizes.
- By the last couple of rounds we were in with a chance.
- We've got numerous people who are in with a chance of winning a medal.
- He insisted that he was in with a chance of reaching the second round.
- If other results go their way then they could still be in with a chance to make the play-offs.
- Just bring a carload of friends and try your hand at the clues to be in with a chance to win a prize.
informal There is no possibility of that. 〈非正式〉绝无可能 Pressed for further comment, he snarled: ‘No chance.’
she thought of ringing on the off chance of catching him at the flat Example sentencesExamples - I'd found her number in the phone book and called her up on the chance that she'd meet me.
- I'm going to continue this experiment until Saturday morning, just on the off chance that the gentleman downstairs is away.
- What are the chances that, even on the off chance that she did happen to see this ad, she would actually remember one drunken night in a youth hostel ten years ago?
- So, on the off chance that any occupation officials are reading this post, I'm going to list a few guidelines that may help you avoid bad coverage.
- While Shane Warne is still taking wickets or Ricky Ponting is still scoring centuries, you wouldn't replace them just on the off chance that the crowds might find it more exciting if someone new was in the team.
- Bernard, 76, who moved to New South Wales from Greater Manchester 40 years ago, suspected the pigeon fancier may be a distant relative and decided to write to him on the off chance.
- Hey: on the off chance that I should perish in a fatal car crash on some major highway, please don't commemorate my life by putting up ribbons and flowers on the telephone pole I crashed into.
- You don't have to spend a year researching a subject on the off chance of selling it through your unknown name.
- So bad has the refuse collection service been over the past year that I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get a collection is to keep the bin permanently in the back street on the off chance that occasionally it might be emptied.
- Why should we have to pay a lifetime of premiums, making some insurance company masses of money, just on the off chance that one day we can make a claim?
Have a prospect of success or survival. 有（成功或生存的）希望 his rivals don't stand a chance 他的对手毫无成功的希望。 Example sentencesExamples - How would the fox hunters like it if they got chased for miles knowing that they wouldn't stand a chance of surviving?
- So they knew they needed to beat each other in order to stand a chance of survival.
- He hated the idea, but it seemed like the only way they could go and stand a chance of surviving.
- I have no doubt they thought they stood a chance of getting something else.
- The Tory idea stands a chance of success depending on which councillors turn up for the meeting.
- If I'd been on duty I wouldn't have stood a chance of getting there in time.
- The Olympic committee is backing a recent sports council initiative that agreed to focus most of its funding on sports that stood a chance of Olympic success.
- Basically it didn't get any airplay on Radio One and if you don't get airplay, you don't stand a chance.
- She had seen a TV programme about Ireland and thought that a somewhat unconventional person like herself stood a chance of being accepted there.
- In the wild, Simba would not have stood a chance.
take a chance (or chances) 1Behave in a way that leaves one vulnerable to danger or failure. 冒险 the bank was prepared to take a chance and lend him 40% of the purchase price it was probably safe, but she was taking no chances Example sentencesExamples - More often than not it appears to be the belief that it is better to play it safe rather than take a chance at change and failure.
- As many gamblers have testified, taking a chance with your cash is likely to lead to heartache and empty pockets.
- You are lucky and can hope to win if you gamble or take a chance.
- She took a chance and ventured out from behind the microphone into a one-woman play titled, ‘This is Where I Get Off.’
- For such a small investment its well worth taking a chance and it could be you who has all their Christmas and New Year money worries wiped out instantly.
- Butcher was prepared to take chances as he took on the bowlers but played with sense, aggression and confidence.
- This is not a good time to take chances or indulge in speculation.
- The four fearless musicians who comprise NEWA (Nicholas Brancker, Eddie Bullen, Wilson Laurencin and Arturo Tappin) took chances, venturing into the unknown.
- It's great theatre: it's irreverent, rude to the establishment and is prepared to take chances.
- Barb had not only convinced her friend to take a chance at the venture but also had agreed to help her out that weekend.
Synonyms risk, gamble, hazard, venture, speculation, long shot, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, lottery, pot luck - 1.1Put one's trust in (something or someone) knowing that it may not be safe or certain.
冒险信任（某人或某事） his boss was prepared to take a chance on youngsters Example sentencesExamples - With the chart singles being blared out of every available set of speakers, which are you going to do - go for the name you know and trust, or take a chance on one you don't?
- Here's hoping that future organizers of events like this can step out and take a chance on something new and exciting for everyone.
- But Coventry were the one club prepared to take a chance on me.
- The players might have done it themselves but I wasn't prepared to take a chance on that.
- To make something like Thalos happen takes some courage, and I have to hand it to London and Vienna for taking a chance on trusting their public to show themselves in a good way.
- Meaning that, you've got to fly business or be prepared to take a chance on the wait list.
- If you love improv, these quirky guys are worth taking a chance on.
- Much like the film it alludes to, this is an acquired taste, but worth taking a chance on, nonetheless.
- she took a chance on what to call him and he did not correct her, so she guessed it was appropriate.
- Weren't Rangers the only team prepared to take a chance on the Frenchman?
Synonyms act in the hope of, trust in, take a chance on, bank on
Do something risky with the hope of success. （为了成功而）冒险，碰运气 he was tempted to stay on the train and take his chance Example sentencesExamples - We always thought he would come through and we are just hoping he takes his chance now.
- Evening Press readers took their chance to grill the Railtrack boss last night in a lively 90-minute online debate.
- They took their chance when it was offered to them a few years back and that is what I have to aim to do.
- The Bellamys are being fully refunded and hope to take their chance to go on another cruise towards the end of the year.
- Up here you get your chance, and you take your chance.
- It was just before the Queen's accession that the first affordable package tour was offered, by an ex-RAF pilot who had bought an old Dakota, booked an hotel in Paris, and took their chance.
- There have been a couple of other youth players that have been given a chance so far this season and it is to be hoped that these kids can take their chance and boost the first team squad.
- It won't be easy for me to break into the team because the lads have been doing so well but I will just have to get my head down, train hard, and take my chance when it comes along.
- The conditions dictated that the score would be close and as the half time whistle approached Bolton took their chance with a penalty in front of the posts.
- ‘I think he walked past the house and saw there was en elderly person inside and took their chance to make some easy money,’ he said.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French cheance, from cheoir 'fall, befall', based on Latin cadere. The ultimate source of chance is Latin cadere ‘to fall’, the root of many other words including those listed at accident. In medieval times chance could mean ‘an accident’ as well as ‘the way things happen, fortune’. There are a number of stories associated with the origin of the phrase chance your arm, meaning ‘to take a risk’. One suggests that it was a slang expression used by tailors who, in rushing the job of sewing in a sleeve, risked the stitches coming loose. Or it may refer to the stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform that indicate a soldier's rank. Doing something that broke military regulations might put you at risk of losing one of your stripes. The most colourful explanation links the phrase with a feud between the Irish Ormond and Kildare families in 1492. According to the story the Earl of Ormond had taken refuge in St Patrick's cathedral in Dublin. The Earl of Kildare, wishing to end the feud and make peace, cut a hole in the cathedral door and put his arm through. The Earl of Ormond accepted his offer of reconciliation and shook his hand rather than cutting it off.
Rhymesadvance, Afrikaans, à outrance, dance, enhance, entrance, faience, France, glance, lance, mischance, outdance, perchance, prance, Provence, stance, trance Definition of chance in US English: chancenountʃænsCHans 1A possibility of something happening. 可能性 there is little chance of his finding a job 他找到工作的可能性极小。 Example sentencesExamples - He believed the more people there were, the better chance there was going to be a party.
- Therefore, allocations that specify this flag have a greater chance of succeeding.
- No-one else who has looked at footage of the incident believes the Rangers forward had even a chance of making an opportunity.
- Things can change, but none of these teams look like having a realistic chance of progressing through the play-offs.
- Critically ill infants born outside the capital are being given a fighting chance of survival through a national transport programme.
- To Mike it seemed that Katie was his last real chance at happiness.
- We are back in with a chance against the losers of the provincial finals.
- I'm always singing around the house and can't believe I could be in with a chance to let the nation vote for my voice.
- And I think there's still a twenty, thirty percent chance of our succeeding.
- Even more revealing are statistics concerning the lifetime chances of going to prison.
- Baby Gabi was born three-and-a-half months premature and was given only a 25 percent chance of survival.
- I'm a realist and I don't think we're in with a chance, but we won't be far behind.
- It is a good draw with all the teams in with a chance of qualification.
- Large-scale cooperative ventures stand the best chance for success, difficult though cooperation may be.
- Now is the time to get your tickets for the monthly community draw and be in with a chance to get your hands on some great money prizes.
- Bolton girls are once again being given the opportunity to win the chance of a glamorous modelling career.
- There's no real prize, just instant fame and the slim chance of surviving one more season.
- There is also a realistic chance of progressing to compete on the big stage.
- But, in reality neither have a snowball's chance in hell of going through.
- Predictably, these eggs especially have a slim chance of surviving on the over-crowded beach if they are not rescued.
Synonyms possibility, prospect, probability, odds, likelihood, likeliness, expectation, anticipation, conceivability, feasibility, plausibility - 1.1chances The probability of something happening.
可能性 he played down his chances of becoming chairman 他对自己担当主席的可能性轻描淡写。 Example sentencesExamples - If you don't like the cold then chances are ice carving probably isn't the job for you.
- If they're elected for a second term and chances are they would be, it's time to finish the job.
- That risk figure is calculated on the basis that you figure out what can go wrong and what the chances are of that happening.
- If you have answered Yes to any two, the chances are that you are an alcoholic.
- What do you think the chances are of that happening and what would be the effect if he did?
- If you have got a jazz poster at home the chances are it's a Wolff photograph.
- Those of you planning a holiday, chances are you will find yourself at a beach resort.
- Yet at 30, a woman's chances of conceiving begin to decline.
- If the target of your affections returns your gaze for more than a second, chances are they're interested.
- Garry is upbeat about the club's chances of staying in business.
- Both sides will fancy their chances of progressing to the final on St. Patrick's Day.
- The youth team captain remains hugely upbeat about his sides' chances in the upcoming tournament.
- Fifty years ago, the chances were you would court and marry someone you met at school or at a local dance.
- No matter how clear the course may look in front, the chances are that if you play as fast as you can as a single you will catch someone up sooner or later.
- I once asked her what the chances were of me meeting a Vampire and living to tell about it.
- Had he scored, the chances are Hibs could probably have added another chapter to their hard-luck story.
- Also, we have evolved to allow the best possible chances of survival and reproduction.
- If she were freed, her presence would give a huge boost to her party's chances in the elections.
- This time, despite the reservations already mentioned, Woods' chances are far better.
- So if you're not looking for it, and are not unprepared, the chances are you will have a holiday romance.
Synonyms likelihood, probability, chances, balance - 1.2in singular An opportunity to do or achieve something.
机会 I gave her a chance to answer 我给了她作答的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately for Shanahoe their cause was not helped by missing some easy scoring chances in this second half.
- Still, Carramore looked the better balanced team but many chances were squandered.
- As he acknowledged, he was once more drinking in the last chance saloon.
- I came here because I saw a fantastic business opportunity and a chance to make a real difference.
- Alvarez had another good chance in the 20th minute.
- But in the middle of all this Martin had missed those two glorious goal chances for Dublin.
- Padraig had a great goal chance in the opening half.
- He sees a money making opportunity and a chance to expand an empire.
- There are many strengths with medicine, and it saves lives, gives people a second chance.
- Does Jesus not say in the Bible about giving people a second chance?
- The Barbarians game I see as an opportunity too; a chance to earn selection for the home tests in June.
- Now, after playing in two losing grand finals, he has the chance to achieve what he really wants in football.
- The defense did not induce a turnover and the offense has achieved the chance to shoot.
- A golden chance to achieve success and happiness in life, that does exist in a world of realities.
- It was a lack of putting touch that cost Ashworth the chance of achieving his long-held dream of playing in The Open.
- They will also get the chance to achieve health and safety, management and hygiene certificates.
- We are offering readers the chance to discover the answer to the three questions they would most like to ask the TV conman.
- Every child deserves the best possible chance at life.
- Most people would agree that Castle-dermot deserves the chance to achieve this potential.
- Together these parties have a chance of achieving an electoral breakthrough that has eluded the left for six decades.
Synonyms opportunity, opening, occasion, turn, time, moment, window, window of opportunity, slot - 1.3 A ticket in a raffle or lottery.
- 1.4Baseball An opportunity to make a defensive play, which if missed counts as an error.
541 straight chances without an error Example sentencesExamples - In the field, he has played well since making a throwing error on his first chance.
2The occurrence and development of events in the absence of any obvious design. 偶然，巧合 he met his brother by chance 他巧遇自己的兄弟。 what a lucky chance that you are here 你在这里，这是多么幸运的巧合啊。 Example sentencesExamples - Of course, there are beautiful scenes and views in nature, but that happens by chance.
- Yet this contract came about in some respects purely by chance.
- I was at Mosport by chance at a private event for providing on-track coaching to owners of some very exotic cars.
- Surely this was a discrepancy that could not have arisen by chance, and is proof positive of a systematic bias amounting to racism.
- If a result is significant, it means that you're pretty sure that it's unlikely to have happened by chance.
- The museum here is home to a famous statue, the Dancing Satyr, which was retrieved from the seabed by chance, in a fishing net.
- Both his career as a novelist and his move to America happened by chance.
- He then, by chance, saw the noticeboard at the Volunteer Bureau advertising for drivers and stopped to find out more.
- Purely by chance, she chose a colour that would never go out of fashion.
- P, the manager of Cafe Bastille on Belden Lane, by chance of fate is also our neighbour.
- Do such events occur simply by chance or do they reflect a genetic programme that can be activated by specific signals?
- This album will turn up, by chance, in the hidden trove of the reseller of Cabrera Infante's books.
- Do you by chance happen to know any art gallery owners secretly aspiring to be Don King?
- Devolution was neither inevitable nor did it happen by chance, but rather as the result of a positive choice for change.
- A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident.
- Burlison invented fuzz by chance when he accidentally dropped his amplifier to the floor before a gig.
- Never wanting to be actively involved in politics, television happened by chance.
- Murray and Johansson are brought together by chance, their lives intersecting in the hotel.
- How Frank got involved in the initiative came about completely by chance.
- However, he wasn't affected by the poison because he drank some tea by chance, which was an antidote.
Synonyms accident, coincidence, serendipity, fate, a twist of fate, destiny, fortuity, fortune, providence, freak, hazard fortuitously, by accident, accidentally, coincidentally, serendipitously, unintentionally, inadvertently
adjectivetʃænsCHans attributive Fortuitous; accidental. 偶然的，碰巧的 邂逅。 Example sentencesExamples - Secondly, there must be a chance meeting between the right female and male.
- She now runs a boutique and recounts how a chance encounter changed her life.
- I wouldn't hang my hat on saying it was such a chance encounter.
- In 1936, a chance meeting placed Johnson on the path to his destiny.
verbtʃænsCHans 1no object, with infinitive Do something by accident or without design. 偶然；碰巧 Example sentencesExamples - Until the other day when I chanced to be reading an Internet message board, I never realized something very silly about it.
- A lovely gentle soul, Mary was truly one of the ‘old stock’ and she had a warm welcome for all who chanced to visit the family home.
- When he was in school, Eldhose chanced to read Dr. Salim Ali's landmark book.
- It had been completely dissected before someone chanced to recognize it.
- White wondered silently if this man he chanced to meet in the desert were really as well intending as he seemed to be.
- Stopping by the grocers for a carton of yogurt, I chanced to be behind a small red-haired woman who held up her young son for the clerk's inspection.
- Most of those who chanced to hear the broadcast by sheer accident, took down their long forgotten radios and transistor sets, and tuned in to the new station on 105.8 MHz.
- One night he began to speak about the great warrior god who lived on the moon, and as he spoke, the girl chanced to look up in the sky.
- I chanced to hear about the temple from my uncle.
- She chanced to see the dance there and took to it like fish to water.
- Venu chanced to read a poem on the art form by noted poet O.N.V. Kurup while making a documentary on ONV.
- Nobody I have ever chanced to meet has ever played the cards as well as Evelyn.
- She chanced to glance up, and their eyes met, both smiling quickly.
- Till one day when he chanced to visit a town called River City where he met a music teacher who also worked as a librarian.
- On reaching into my shoulder-bag to locate my wallet my hands chanced to touch the package of shells.
- Maybe in all of his handling of it, he'd finally chanced to accidentally turn it on.
- No dwellings of any sort where someone might chance to see how she met her end.
- She was travelling just behind, and chanced to see the youth on the track with bleeding injuries.
- A short while ago, I chanced to be in Dallas making a documentary film.
- It lacks the stunning volcano view of their pad in the Philippines, which was completely buried in grey ash by a huge, unforeseen eruption three days after they chanced to vacate it.
- 1.1chance upon/on Find or see by accident.
碰巧发现，偶然看见 he chanced upon an interesting advertisement 他偶然看见一则有趣的广告。 Example sentencesExamples - The scene they were filming in King Street saw Ian, who plays Billy Connolly's butler in the movie, chancing upon Garfield in a London street (rather like in the film Elizabeth, York is pretending to be London).
- His output roams through jazz, techno, ambient, classical and world music, chancing upon unique hybrids en route.
- Swanson took up kiting after chancing on a kite festival as he drove through Lauder a decade ago.
- So I have converted 60 people to the cause (some of those people may just have chanced across the site by accident - looking up kinky octopuses no doubt).
- The answer had become clear to Eaton last night, when he had chanced upon Clara comforting Will after Rebecca's accident.
- The deputy chairman of HBOS frequently used to talk about the tedium of looking around on the floor searching for pennies - and the excitement of chancing upon the occasional 50p piece.
- In chancing upon her subject's scrapbooks and photographs, Seymour hit the kind of paydirt of which most biographers can only dream.
- Jim then finds others before chancing on a military outpost in the north.
- The belief is that chancing upon a coin in the heap would usher in good fortune for the coming year.
- One of the things I like most is chancing upon a salesman trying desperately to sell an item that no-one, but no-one is stupid enough to want to buy.
- Following particularly caddish behaviour from the cad of the novel, Tansy embarks on a solo trip around the world, during which she chances upon a number of people, doesn't like any of them, then discovers they're not so very bad after all.
- As from next year, there will be no domestic coverage of Test cricket, so no opportunity for hungover passers-by to accidentally chance upon such a thriller.
- His courtship of antique cameras also had lucky breaks like chancing upon photographers closing shop, selling him their equipment at bargain prices and friends and acquaintances also passing him on old cameras.
- Here's a tip - the likelihood of your boss wanting to google your name is almost as likely as them chancing across a copy of your book in the bargain bins at Borders.
- Many a time, while searching through a pile of seemingly obscure books, one chances upon a real gem.
- I rather serendipitously chanced onto a career with the National Park Service in 1971 at the Fort Laramie National Historic Site.
- However, it was not difficult to meet people simply by wandering through the bush and chancing upon scattered huts and houses.
- A perfect face for a camera to capture, or so thought one photographer, who for the past decade has been taking pictures of the Montrose netters after chancing upon them while on holiday.
- I'm currently enjoying the odd effect of chancing across spoken word excerpts in the original Italian.
- Leave the long queue for the short one and you get the supermarket assistant chancing across her long-lost sister.
Synonyms come across, run across, run into, happen on, hit on, light on, come upon, stumble on, blunder on, find by chance, meet, meet by chance
2informal with object Do (something) despite its being dangerous or of uncertain outcome. 〈非正式〉冒险做（某事） she waited a few seconds and chanced another look Example sentencesExamples - Children as young as eight and nine have been spotted chancing dangerous tightrope walks across the poles which rise up to 30 ft above the ground.
- Instead she was outside in the spring sunshine - chancing it amongst the skyscrapers.
- Chancing a look in his direction, Eve observed that he was grinning.
- I don't feel like chancing it, so I'm looking for an alternative exit strategy.
- I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
- I realise I'm chancing my neck, so I'll be logging on and off to make sure I get the right result - did I type that out loud?
- My own judgement is that he is chancing it when he presents conservative estimates of forest and species loss, rather than simply challenging the excesses of environmentalists.
- Also chancing an icy swim were regulars from a Ryedale pub who resurrected a New Year tradition with a dip in the River Derwent.
- ‘We have had a number of incidents of motorists chancing it and driving though flooded roads and breaking down,’ he said.
- The only game I ever chanced it on was the dart game.
- Even so, the latest in what may well be an endless series was chancing it a bit.
- I chanced a look up and Liam smiled uncertainly at me.
- He says the days of drink-driving being seen as the older man's problem are long gone, and more younger people are now chancing the breathalyser, partly because of stronger and larger drinks.
- Upon chancing a nibble, however, I felt that it could have done with a little bit more of the basics, namely salt and pepper.
- Was he a highly-charged risk-taker who, away from his family, had chanced all on a madcap, criminal adventure?
- Like every sold-out library event I've done in the last few years, there were still some empty seats and the people who came along and chanced a standby all got in.
- He knew he might have chanced it once but he wouldn't have tried it the second time!
- How can today's business leaders take the risks necessary to pursue rapid growth without also chancing the wrath of disappointed shareholders - and potentially devastating legal action?
- To reject giving a child a jab in favour of chancing it with the disease is to absolve oneself of responsibility.
- Terrified to take my eyes off the road, I chanced a look, and saw a car full of guys.
Synonyms risk, hazard, venture, try, try one's luck with
PhrasesPossibly (used in tentative inquiries or suggestions) 万一，也许（用于试探性的询问或提议） were you looking for me by any chance? 你有可能是在找我吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Is this an anti-capitalism statement, by any chance?
- They wouldn't have a socialist government, by any chance, would they?
- Is Michelle still working there, by any chance?
- If, by any chance, you're in a dilemma about what dessert to serve after you've eaten your freedom fries, you may wish to consider a bucket of Star Spangled Ice Cream.
- Are you all feeling a sense of impending doom by any chance?
- Did you take your own legal advice, by any chance?
- They would not be Left-leaning by any chance, would they?
- Does he, by any chance, come from a naval family?
- Could you, by any chance, bring a huge umbrella next year?
- Do they plan late night music bars by any chance?
Synonyms please, kindly, be so good as to
informal There is no possibility of that. 〈非正式〉绝无可能 I asked if we could leave early and she said, “No chance.”
Joan phoned at noon on the off chance that he'd be home Example sentencesExamples - Hey: on the off chance that I should perish in a fatal car crash on some major highway, please don't commemorate my life by putting up ribbons and flowers on the telephone pole I crashed into.
- So, on the off chance that any occupation officials are reading this post, I'm going to list a few guidelines that may help you avoid bad coverage.
- While Shane Warne is still taking wickets or Ricky Ponting is still scoring centuries, you wouldn't replace them just on the off chance that the crowds might find it more exciting if someone new was in the team.
- I'm going to continue this experiment until Saturday morning, just on the off chance that the gentleman downstairs is away.
- Bernard, 76, who moved to New South Wales from Greater Manchester 40 years ago, suspected the pigeon fancier may be a distant relative and decided to write to him on the off chance.
- Why should we have to pay a lifetime of premiums, making some insurance company masses of money, just on the off chance that one day we can make a claim?
- You don't have to spend a year researching a subject on the off chance of selling it through your unknown name.
- I'd found her number in the phone book and called her up on the chance that she'd meet me.
- What are the chances that, even on the off chance that she did happen to see this ad, she would actually remember one drunken night in a youth hostel ten years ago?
- So bad has the refuse collection service been over the past year that I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get a collection is to keep the bin permanently in the back street on the off chance that occasionally it might be emptied.
usually with negativeHave a prospect of success or survival. 有（成功或生存的）希望 his rivals don't stand a chance 他的对手毫无成功的希望。 Example sentencesExamples - The Olympic committee is backing a recent sports council initiative that agreed to focus most of its funding on sports that stood a chance of Olympic success.
- Basically it didn't get any airplay on Radio One and if you don't get airplay, you don't stand a chance.
- The Tory idea stands a chance of success depending on which councillors turn up for the meeting.
- If I'd been on duty I wouldn't have stood a chance of getting there in time.
- She had seen a TV programme about Ireland and thought that a somewhat unconventional person like herself stood a chance of being accepted there.
- I have no doubt they thought they stood a chance of getting something else.
- How would the fox hunters like it if they got chased for miles knowing that they wouldn't stand a chance of surviving?
- He hated the idea, but it seemed like the only way they could go and stand a chance of surviving.
- So they knew they needed to beat each other in order to stand a chance of survival.
- In the wild, Simba would not have stood a chance.
take a chance (or chances) 1Behave in a way that leaves one vulnerable to danger or failure. 冒险 Example sentencesExamples - This is not a good time to take chances or indulge in speculation.
- Barb had not only convinced her friend to take a chance at the venture but also had agreed to help her out that weekend.
- For such a small investment its well worth taking a chance and it could be you who has all their Christmas and New Year money worries wiped out instantly.
- As many gamblers have testified, taking a chance with your cash is likely to lead to heartache and empty pockets.
- The four fearless musicians who comprise NEWA (Nicholas Brancker, Eddie Bullen, Wilson Laurencin and Arturo Tappin) took chances, venturing into the unknown.
- It's great theatre: it's irreverent, rude to the establishment and is prepared to take chances.
- You are lucky and can hope to win if you gamble or take a chance.
- More often than not it appears to be the belief that it is better to play it safe rather than take a chance at change and failure.
- Butcher was prepared to take chances as he took on the bowlers but played with sense, aggression and confidence.
- She took a chance and ventured out from behind the microphone into a one-woman play titled, ‘This is Where I Get Off.’
Synonyms risk, gamble, hazard, venture, speculation, long shot, leap in the dark, pig in a poke, lottery, pot luck - 1.1Put one's trust in (something or someone) knowing that it may not be safe or certain.
冒险信任（某人或某事） Example sentencesExamples - The players might have done it themselves but I wasn't prepared to take a chance on that.
- To make something like Thalos happen takes some courage, and I have to hand it to London and Vienna for taking a chance on trusting their public to show themselves in a good way.
- If you love improv, these quirky guys are worth taking a chance on.
- Here's hoping that future organizers of events like this can step out and take a chance on something new and exciting for everyone.
- Weren't Rangers the only team prepared to take a chance on the Frenchman?
- she took a chance on what to call him and he did not correct her, so she guessed it was appropriate.
- Much like the film it alludes to, this is an acquired taste, but worth taking a chance on, nonetheless.
- But Coventry were the one club prepared to take a chance on me.
- With the chart singles being blared out of every available set of speakers, which are you going to do - go for the name you know and trust, or take a chance on one you don't?
- Meaning that, you've got to fly business or be prepared to take a chance on the wait list.
Synonyms act in the hope of, trust in, take a chance on, bank on
Do something risky with the hope of success. （为了成功而）冒险，碰运气 Example sentencesExamples - The Bellamys are being fully refunded and hope to take their chance to go on another cruise towards the end of the year.
- They took their chance when it was offered to them a few years back and that is what I have to aim to do.
- We always thought he would come through and we are just hoping he takes his chance now.
- Up here you get your chance, and you take your chance.
- It won't be easy for me to break into the team because the lads have been doing so well but I will just have to get my head down, train hard, and take my chance when it comes along.
- It was just before the Queen's accession that the first affordable package tour was offered, by an ex-RAF pilot who had bought an old Dakota, booked an hotel in Paris, and took their chance.
- ‘I think he walked past the house and saw there was en elderly person inside and took their chance to make some easy money,’ he said.
- There have been a couple of other youth players that have been given a chance so far this season and it is to be hoped that these kids can take their chance and boost the first team squad.
- The conditions dictated that the score would be close and as the half time whistle approached Bolton took their chance with a penalty in front of the posts.
- Evening Press readers took their chance to grill the Railtrack boss last night in a lively 90-minute online debate.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French cheance, from cheoir ‘fall, befall’, based on Latin cadere. |