| 词汇 | eventuality |
| 释义 | eventuality noun[ C ] uk /ɪˌven.tʃuˈæl.ə.ti/ us /ɪˌven.tʃuˈæl.ə.t̬i/ something unpleasant or unexpected that might happen or exist in the future: （指令人不快或意料之外的）可能发生的事件；可能出现的结果 We've tried to anticipate the most likely problems, but it's impossible to be prepared for all eventualities/every eventuality.我们已尽力去预见最可能出现的问题，但是要对所有可能出现的情况做到有备无患是不可能的。 I'm looking for a travel insurance policy that will cover me for any eventuality.我正在找一种能够承保旅行时发生的任何意外的险种。 Synonym contingencyformal Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic hardness have a bumpy rideidiom have someone over a barrelidiom pall purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom eventuality | American Dictionaryeventuality noun[ C ] us/ɪˌven·tʃuˈæl·ət̬·i/ a possible happening or result: I thought I could cope with any eventuality. Examples of eventualityeventuality It is necessary for each department to subsequently have a plan of action in this eventuality. To our knowledge this second eventuality has received little empirical attention. All possible eventualities, including the bishop's absence from the country and a lack of suitable candidates from within the priory, were accounted for. Likewise, her bare forms do not predominantly refer to future/modal eventualities; rather they refer to ongoing situations, as is the case for monolinguals. It seems natural to require from a voting rule that it be capable of dealing with such eventualities. However, as obvious, such an eventuality can be assessed only ex post facto, by the means offered by the resultant state. Even though the verb semantically denotes the initial part of an eventuality, it is not clear how that part is specified. Prior to his dementia, the patient expressed a preference for being allowed, in that eventuality, to die. Thus, statives express non-quantized (homogeneous) eventualities of unlimited duration. Whether one wishes to rent a room or to mail some belongings, a contract covering every eventuality is required. We would each want to insure against that eventuality. The apparent generalisation about enjoy and similar verbs is that semantically they always take eventualities. Should this vein of history-writing expire, however - an eventuality that seems increasingly likely - it will have to be resuscitated by political scientists. Either eventuality would cast doubt on the value of a housewife's erstwhile contribution to the marriage and her status within it. These eventualities came to fruition as the demand for all sorts of consumer goods increased tremendously after the war. 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. |
| 随便看 |
|
反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。