| 词汇 | chancy |
| 释义 | chancy adjective informaluk /ˈtʃɑːn.si/ us /ˈtʃæn.si/ involving the possibility of something bad happening: 危险的;有风险的 Investing in the stock market is a chancy business.投资股票交易是件冒险的事。 Synonym diceyinformal Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously hazmat on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously peril someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous venturesome chancy | American Dictionarychancy adjective us/ˈtʃæn·si/ involving risk: The show’s financing was chancy, and that made us all nervous. Examples of chancychancy Music needs to operate within human reach, not within a chancy hypercomplexity. These later acquisitions provide no grounds to downgrade its precursors to mere learning or chancy guesses, however. Of course, the indeterministic method - exploiting frequentism's under-determination of individual events' probabilities - can't work in a universe without irreducibly chancy events. We all know that, from the most impartial witnesses, evidence as to speed is highly chancy, to say the least of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that middle group the imponderables make selection a rather chancy affair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Did they not suffer disadvantage from the kind of haphazard, chancy processes which have operated hitherto? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be so sometimes, but sometimes it is not so, and it is chancy whether one does it or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole thing is com- pletely unco-ordinated and chancy to a point where forestry economy is in a most perilous balance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the initial stages, it was perhaps a bit chancy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is very chancy, particularly if the driver is about 50 years of age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know how chancy is the award of a medal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There should be something of that kind rather than wait for the always chancy business of being able to get legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is far too chancy in the case of the herring fish industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Peer review, as it is called, is a decidedly chancy business, albeit it is the best that we can do. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the existing problems of the sketchy examination, the chancy examination and differences in standard between one county and another, go on. 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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