英语单词短语词组“off chance”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析-英汉词典

off chance

noun

informal

/ˈɒf ˌtʃɑːns/us

/ˈɑːf ˌtʃæns/

on the off chance

hopingthat something may bepossible,althoughit is notlikely:

抱着一线希望；侥幸一试，碰运气

Iappliedfor thejobon the offchancethat they might like me, but I didn'tseriouslyexpectto get it.我怀着一线希望申请了这份工作，不过我没真的指望能得到它。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Possible and probable

always
anything's possibleidiom
arguably
as never beforeidiom
auspiciously
bea safe betidiom
bet
fair
it isn't over until the fat lady singsidiom
lean
lean towards sth
liable
likelihood
manage
maybe
probably
prospective
prospectively
realm
tip

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(Definition ofoff chancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoff chance

off chance

It is difficult to leave intensive care beds open on theoffchancethat a flu epidemic may occur.

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The local communities will find it unacceptable to reserve the whole estate merely on theoffchancethat there will be a military requirement.

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One of the troubles with our general legislation on taxation is that we hit everybody in sight, on theoffchanceof hitting someone who deserves to be hit.

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There is no need at all to require officers to duplicate their pocket book entries at the time, just on theoffchancethat they might subsequently be wanted.

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He retrieved a sample of mouse brain infected with polio virus and added it to the remaining test tubes, on theoffchancethat the virus might grow.

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These men have to go to the docks every morning and dinner-time, and sometimes at 5 o'clock in the evening on theoffchanceof getting half-a-day's work.

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单词	off chance
释义	off chance noun informal uk /ˈɒf ˌtʃɑːns/us /ˈɑːf ˌtʃæns/ on the off chance hopingthat something may bepossible,althoughit is notlikely: 抱着一线希望；侥幸一试，碰运气 Iappliedfor thejobon the offchancethat they might like me, but I didn'tseriouslyexpectto get it.我怀着一线希望申请了这份工作，不过我没真的指望能得到它。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Possible and probable always anything's possibleidiom arguably as never beforeidiom auspiciously bea safe betidiom bet fair it isn't over until the fat lady singsidiom lean lean towards sth liable likelihood manage maybe probably prospective prospectively realm tip See more results » (Definition ofoff chancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press) Examplesofoff chance off chance It is difficult to leave intensive care beds open on theoffchancethat a flu epidemic may occur. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The local communities will find it unacceptable to reserve the whole estate merely on theoffchancethat there will be a military requirement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the troubles with our general legislation on taxation is that we hit everybody in sight, on theoffchanceof hitting someone who deserves to be hit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no need at all to require officers to duplicate their pocket book entries at the time, just on theoffchancethat they might subsequently be wanted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 He retrieved a sample of mouse brain infected with polio virus and added it to the remaining test tubes, on theoffchancethat the virus might grow. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These men have to go to the docks every morning and dinner-time, and sometimes at 5 o'clock in the evening on theoffchanceof getting half-a-day's work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/off-chance##
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