chancy
英 ['tʃɑːnsɪ]
美
- adj. 不确实的；偶然发生的；不安的
英英释意
- 1. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk;
- "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
- 2. subject to accident or chance or change;
- "a chancy appeal at best"
- "getting that job was definitely fluky"
- "a fluky wind"
- "an iffy proposition"
英文词源
- 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).
实用场景例句
- Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.
- 投资正变成一项风险事业。
柯林斯例句
- If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.
- 如果这种进步的方法好像太碰机会,也太浪费了, 它的缺点也不无利益的功绩.
辞典例句
- That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.
- 那事做起来可真危险, 当时你很有可能会受重伤.
辞典例句
- Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.
- 不过, 这种间接信息和暗自抑制的方式,毕竟还是太慢,而且也不太确实.
辞典例句
- That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been killed.
- 那事做起来可真危险, 当时你很有可能会遇害.
互联网
- Babies and the chancy life of a musician do not exactly go together.
- 生儿育女和乐师动荡不定的生活是不合拍的.
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