chancy
英 [ˈtʃɑːn.si]
美 [ˈtʃæn.si]
- adj. 不确实的；偶然发生的；不安的
英语词源
- 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).
权威例句
- 1. Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.
- 投资正变成一项风险事业。
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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.
- 4. 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.
- 5. I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.
- 我希望有支持者, 但这项目风险太大.
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