【chance音标】 英[tʃɑ:ns] 美[tʃæns]
【单词释义】 chance是什么意思：
n.机会，机遇；概率，可能性；偶然，运气
v.偶然发生；冒险；碰巧；偶然被发现
adj.意外的；偶然的；碰巧的
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] chances [第三人称单数] chances
[单词现在分词] chancing
[单词过去式] chanced
[单词过去分词] chanced
【chance形近词/近似词】
mischance n.厄运；不幸；灾难；倒霉事
enhance vt.提高，增强；增进；加强
dance n.跳舞；舞会；舞曲 vi.跳舞；跳跃
【单词例句】
◇ Brushing your teeth effectively lowers your chances of getting a host of chronic diseases, as well as keeping your teeth and gums healthy. But the majority of us are doing it wrong.
有效刷牙可以大大降低患上多种慢性疾病的风险，同时也能保持牙齿和牙龈的健康。但我们大多数人刷牙的方式都是错误的。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ He had got a shelter by chance. It was in a room heated by a stove, and as warm as summer. He could exist here, he said, well enough.
他乘着一个偶然的机会溜到一个房间里去了。这儿火炉里面生着火，像夏天一样温暖。他说，他可以在这里生存，很好。
---- The Butterfly
◇ To avoid the Customs’ punishment, they hid in a small ferry called the North Pole Seagull, sitting back to back without sleeping, showering and shaving for 3 days, and had no chance to mourn their lost luggage when landing. The hardship of this crossing was apparent.
为了避开海关的惩处，他们躲在一艘叫“北极海鸥”的渡轮里，背靠背坐着，整整3天没有睡觉、洗澡和刮胡子，上岸的时候也没有机会心痛他们丢失的行李，这次横渡的艰辛是显而易见的。
---- Immigrate to America
◇ But she intended to become a doctor after she came across Lin Qiaozhi by chance, who was delivering medical courses to an audience crowding around her. Before moving off, Lin inspired her to carry on her study.
但是在她偶然遇见了林巧芝之后却打定注意想要成为一名医生，当时林巧芝正在给拥挤在她身边的观众传授医疗课程，在离开之前，林巧芝鼓舞她继续坚持学习。
---- A Woman Doctor-Lina
◇ Staring at his impatient face, he understood that it was the fault of his skin colour that accounted for their refection. So he decided to take a chance to sail on a small boat home.
盯着他那不耐烦的脸，他知道是他皮肤颜色的错才导致了他们的拒绝。于是，他决定冒险驾驶一只小船回家。
---- Sailing Home
◇ I suggested that they should stay at "bed and breakfast" houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.
我建议他们应该住在“住宿加早餐”的房子里，因为这种住宿方式给了外国游客一个与家人说英语的好机会。我的朋友们听了我的建议，但他们回来时讲了一些有趣的故事。
---- The difference between vacaciones and holidays
◇ "You're likely to wake up with numbness and tingling, and it can increase the chance of muscle and joint pain," she said.
她说：“你醒来时可能身体发麻刺痛，还可能导致肌肉和关节疼痛。”
---- The Best Positions in Bed Revealed
◇ The so-called carbon budget is the total amount of carbon dioxide the world can pump into the atmosphere while still having a chance of stopping short of 2 degrees of global warming.
所谓的“碳预算”是指全球排放到大气中的二氧化碳总量的上限，以保证还有机会将全球变暖的增幅遏制在两摄氏度内。
---- More plastic than fish in oceans by 2050
◇ If, by chance, I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I have the liberty to replace my present wife with another one. Naturally, I will expect a fresh, new life; my wife will take the children and be solely responsible for them so that I am left free.
如果我偶然碰上一个比我现在的老婆更合适做老婆的人，我希望有休掉现在的老婆、重新另娶一个的自由。自然，我向往过一种新鲜的生活；我的老婆将抚养孩子，对他们全权负责。这样，我就可以无牵无挂。
---- I Want a Wife
◇ Looking at this, the lawyer thought maybe there’s still a chance, but the wife was frowning when she answer. “This is always the problem, you always think so highly of yourself, never thought about how I feel, don’t you know that I hate drumsticks?”
见到这种情景，律师心想，他们相亲相爱到这个地步本不应该提出离婚的。然而，出奇意料的是，当老夫人接过丈夫所夹的菜时，眉毛却很不自然地皱了一下答道：“这就是问题所在，你总是自以为是，从来没有顾及过我的感受，难道你就不知道我很讨厌吃鸡腿吗？”
---- Life Together