Chance

(noun.) a risk involving danger; 'you take a chance when you let her drive'.

(verb.) be the case by chance; 'I chanced to meet my old friend in the street'.

欧文整理

• We must begin, for Laura's sake, where there is the best chance of success, I replied. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Here was a fellow like Chettam with no chance at all. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I mean to have another chance yet. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The man knew her, and might by a fortunate chance see her, or hear of her; that was something, as enlisting one pair of eyes and ears the more. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We desire that, too; that he may not by any chance be made her prey again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• These slippery smooth walls would give him no chance. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The chances were that that matter, too, was well known to him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And she surveyed her position, and its hopes, doubts, and chances. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We might hide among the great trees for a time, but the chances are small indeed for escape. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• It was necessary to destroy his chances promptly. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Now Sophia, it so chanced, was fond of a slice of mutton. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• No one chanced to be about, and she got down to the hall in quiet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was considered very pleasant reading, but I never read more of it myself than the sentence on which I chanced to light on opening the book. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At a second stop I met some highly cultivated people of the noble class and while in conversation we chanced to speak of Helium. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• If the wind had not chanced, in the position I occupied, to set it away from me, my exertions might have ended then and there. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It chanced that Shirley, the moment before, had been gazing from a window down on the park. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Indeed, he gradually came to regard it as such, and to feel a sense of personal complacency when he chanced on any reference to the Gryce Americana. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Chancing for an instant to look down, his glance rested on an uplifted face, flushed, smiling, happy, shaded with silky curls, lit with fine eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was drawing his hand from his breast; the prisoner chancing to look up in his hurried wonder as he wrote, the hand stopped, closing upon something. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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