chancy

• adj. 不确实的；偶然发生的；不安的

英文词源

chancy (adj.)

1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from chance (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).

双语例句

1. Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.

投资正变成一项风险事业。

来自柯林斯例句

2. If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.

如果这种进步的方法好像太碰机会,也太浪费了, 它的缺点也不无利益的功绩.

来自辞典例句

3. That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.

那事做起来可真危险, 当时你很有可能会受重伤.

来自辞典例句

4. Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.

不过, 这种间接信息和暗自抑制的方式,毕竟还是太慢,而且也不太确实.

来自辞典例句

5. I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.

我希望有支持者, 但这项目风险太大.

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