chancy
英 ['t?ɑ?ns?]
美
- adj. 不確實(shí)的；偶然發(fā)生的；不安的
英文詞源
- chancy (adj.)
- 1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from chance (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.
- 投資正變成一項(xiàng)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)事業(yè)。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.
- 如果這種進(jìn)步的方法好像太碰機(jī)會(huì),也太浪費(fèi)了, 它的缺點(diǎn)也不無(wú)利益的功績(jī).
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 3. That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.
- 那事做起來(lái)可真危險(xiǎn), 當(dāng)時(shí)你很有可能會(huì)受重傷.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 4. Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.
- 不過(guò), 這種間接信息和暗自抑制的方式,畢竟還是太慢,而且也不太確實(shí).
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.
- 我希望有支持者, 但這項(xiàng)目風(fēng)險(xiǎn)太大.
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