| 词汇 | hit-and-miss |
| 释义 | hit-and-miss adjective uk /ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/ us /ˌhɪt.ənˈmɪs/(alsohit-or-miss) If something is hit-and-miss, you cannot depend on it to be of good quality, on time, accurate, etc.: 没准的，碰运气的 The trains are often late, so getting to work on time is a fairly hit-and-miss affair.火车经常晚点，所以准时上班在很大程度上是件碰运气的事。 Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence crapshoot even money fluke fluky luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom non-purposive randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition stumble into something Examples of hit-and-misshit-and-miss Then you really started to hear it, although even then it was a bit hit-and-miss. One might describe it as a fire brigade method; an ad hoc method; a hit-and-miss method. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We know that predict and provide is a hit-and-miss approach to housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past, however, our policy has been too hit-and-miss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It appears to many local authorities that this is a very hit-and-miss method. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Again, the levy is imposed under a number of different provisions and is somewhat of a hit-and-miss affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The simple thesis that we are putting forward is that the incidence of aid on the present set-up is of too much a hit-and-miss character. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Securing that funding has been a problem in the past, and has been something of a hit-and-miss affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does mining have to be such a hit-and-miss affair in this modern day and age? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Respite care is very much a hit-and-miss affair, depending on the resources of the local authority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, the public should not he exposed to hit-and-miss arrangements. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At the moment, it all seems very hit-and-miss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result could be a hit-and-miss statutory provision which left motorists in an uncertain position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 For the officers already in the force, overtime is inevitably something of a hit-and-miss affair depending upon the force in which they serve. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When one does not know what a word looks like, even looking a word up in a dictionary becomes a painfully slow, hit-and-miss affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of hit-and-miss These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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