| 词汇 | chanced |
| 释义 | chanced past simple and past participle ofchance chance verb uk /tʃɑːns/ us /tʃæns/ chanceverb (RISK)[ T ] to risk something: 使…冒风险 You'd be a fool to chance your life savings on a single investment.你要是把一辈子的积蓄都放到一项投资上就是个傻瓜。 Taking risks adventurer all in be skating on thin iceidiom bet the farm/ranchidiom broke dare expose hazard high wire high-stakes imperil jeopardize lay re-expose risk run the risk of doing somethingidiom sail sail close to the windidiom skate sniper's alley chanceverb (LUCK)[ I ]old-fashioned or literary to happen or do something by chance: 偶然发生；碰巧 [ + to infinitive ]They chanced to be in the restaurant when I arrived.我到的时候他们正好在餐馆里。 chance onI chanced on (= found unexpectedly) some old love letters in a drawer. chance uponTen years after leaving school, we chanced upon (= unexpectedly met) each other in Regent Street. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence crapshoot even money fluke fluky long shot luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom randomly randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition Idiomchance your arm Examples of chancedchanced In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Finally, asking subjects to rank the outcomes before they acted would have chanced a contamination of their actual dilemma behaviour. Quite by mistake, his son, many years later, was skiing in the same place and chanced upon the body of his missing father. But then, looking up, he chanced to meet with his own blue eyes the stranger's weary, melancholy gaze, fixed on his face. I chanced it to see what he had made of it. Somebody has chanced their arm and brought in 1,000 of them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those involved had to speak from the floor if they chanced to be at a meeting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I chanced to spend last evening with a distinguished civil servant who enjoys a very responsible position at the present moment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I seem to have chanced upon the fuse of an explosive situation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I chanced to overhear a few-days ago a number of people who had met on a social occasion and who began to talk about food. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The stock of books is chanced at regular intervals, and if the prisoner needs technical books these are provided on request. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It chanced that they developed in that direction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We happened to be in power when a dictator chanced his luck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has chanced his arm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The case is one where a soldier who was for some time in the trenches or in the firing line, chanced to be relieved by some of his colleagues. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I chanced on these dates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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