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词组 chance
释义 chance
 1. Noun. The preposition used most commonly after chance is of:
      ... 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. Verb. The verb chance may be followed by the prepositions on or upon:
      ... 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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