chancy

英 ['t?ɑ?ns?] 美
  • adj. 不確實的;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).

雙語例句


1. Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.
投資正變成一項風(fēng)險事業(yè)。

來自柯林斯例句

2. If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.
如果這種進步的方法好像太碰機會,也太浪費了, 它的缺點也不無利益的功績.

來自辭典例句

3. That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.
那事做起來可真危險, 當(dāng)時你很有可能會受重傷.

來自辭典例句

4. Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.
不過, 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.

來自辭典例句

5. I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.
我希望有支持者, 但這項目風(fēng)險太大.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)