| 词组 | chance |
| 释义 | chance 1. • ... would have only a small chance of hitting us — Thomas C. Butler, Johns Hopkins Mag., Summer 1971 • We must take him on if there was any chance of success —Ernest Hemingway, "Miss Mary's Lion," 1956 Chance is also used, in varying senses, with at, for, and on: • ... his team has the chance at a question —NEA Jour., January 1965 • ... historians, who will get their chance at it ... in the future —Jonathan Daniels, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 9 May 1954 • ... Italy's best chance for progress —N. Y. Times, 10 Dec. 1963 • ... the best chance for future society —E. M. Förster, reprinted in Encore, November 1944 • ... took advantage of a free chance on a set of 10 storm windows —Springfield (Mass.) Union, 21 Sept. 1955 And it is used with to and the infinitive: • Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love — Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt, 1969 • ... to give the swagman a chance to incriminate himself —William Power, Yale Rev., Summer 1954 2. • ... unless one chances on him while he is already laughing —Hiram Haydn, American Scholar, Summer 1964 • We chanced upon a pocket air-pollution indicator — McCall's, October 1971 It is also frequently followed by to and the infinitive: • Chancing to pick up a copy —L. N. Wright, CEA Critic, May 1971 • Arnvid chances to rescue a young woman — Edmund Fuller, Saturday Rev., 16 Oct. 1954 Other prepositions are occasionally used: • ... 24 Bewick ... swans chanced into Slimbridge from their breeding grounds 2,600 miles away — Sophy Burnham, N.Y. Times Mag., 27 Apr. 1980 • ... I chanced by a bookstall —Deedee Moore, Cosmopolitan, January 1972 |
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