Uncertainty

(noun.) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; 'the uncertainty of the outcome'; 'the precariousness of his income'.

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• In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Great is the uncertainty of life! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Uncertainty has the same influence as opposition. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Isaac gasped with terror and uncertainty. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• To be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty of any provision. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I am inclined to believe, from my uncertainty on this head, that it was six at first and seven afterwards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• However, we have discovered that there WAS a predisposing influence against you--and there is one uncertainty cleared out of our way, at any rate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Mrs. Yeobright was in this state of uncertainty when she was informed one morning that her son's wife was visiting her grandfather at Mistover. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I don't say that he is not an honourable man, out of all this complication and uncertainty; I am sure he is. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• If there are genuine uncertainties in life, philosophies must reflect that uncertainty. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• My uncertainties ended in my taking a way that may make you laugh. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But, patience, patience--this uncertainty, and many uncertainties more, cannot last much longer. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• No, I have one hundred, said Bulstrode, feeling the immediate riddance too great a relief to be rejected on the ground of future uncertainties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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