| 词汇 | the odds |
| 释义 | the oddsthe odds PROBABILITY 可能性 how likely it is that something will or will not happen 〔事物发生的〕可能性 The odds are (=it is likely) that he will commit the same crime again. 他可能还会犯同样的罪行。 the odds of You can narrow the odds of a nasty accident happening in your home by being more safety-conscious. 增强安全意识可以减少家中发生意外危险的可能性。 the odds against The odds against a plane crash are around a million to one. 发生空难的可能性仅有约百万分之一。 I’m afraid that the odds are heavily against her winning (=it is not likely). 恐怕她获胜的可能性很小。 What are the odds (=how likely is it) that they will mess up? 他们失败的可能性有多大？ a new company that has beaten the odds and succeeded (=it was not likely to succeed, but it did) 战胜逆境而取得成功的一家新公司 Examples from the Corpus the odds are ... against• The odds are heavily stacked against Pears for the final game at Wolves on Saturday.• Although confident, we know the odds are stacked against the climbers.• The fact remains that because of election by constituency quota the odds are heavily against fair representation for a small party.• But now, because of complex permutations resulting from an equally involved scoring system, the odds are stacking up against Conner.• One tries to make that happen all the time, even though the odds are against it.• Do you know what the odds are against a house catching fire in the Red Triangle district of Bes Pelargic? → the odds at odds(1) |
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