chancy
英 ['t?ɑ?ns?]
美
- adj. 不確實的；偶然發生的；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.
- 投資正變成一項風險事業。
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, 但這項目風險太大.
來自互聯網
