odds

英 [ɒdz] 美 [ɑːdz]

• n. 机率；可能性；差别；投注赔率；让步；优势

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [P]可能性,机会

   the probability that sth will or will not happen

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 差异
2. 差额
3. 不和，争吵
4. 可能性
5. 投注赔率
6. 机会
7. 赌注差额
8. 不利条件
9. 逆境
10. 几率
11. 不平等
12. 胜算
13. 概率

英英释义

Noun:

1. the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

2. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another;

   "he offered odds of two to one"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The odds are against us.
   我们成功的机会很小。
2. His odds are very poor after he sprained his wrist.
   他扭伤了手腕，获胜的可能性极小。
3. It makes no odds whether Henry goes or stays.
   亨利去也好留也好都没有什么关系。
4. The horse was running at odds of ten to one.
   那匹马参赛赔率是十比一。
5. The odds are on the visiting team.
   客队占优势。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. It is long odds against his coming home this summer.
   今年夏天他回家的可能性极小。
2. The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.
   她获胜的机会是五比一。

经典引文

• Odds and ends of spoiled goods.

  出自： Dickens

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

against all odds

尽管很困难in spite of difficulties

at odds with

与…不和,与…争吵in disagreement with

it〔that〕 makes no odds

无多大差别it〔that〕 makes no difference

odds and ends

零碎东西small articles of various kinds, without much value

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• beat the odds 战胜不利条件
• give odds 打赌,猜测

形容词+～

• fearful odds 可怕的力量悬殊
• long odds 极不相等的机会

介词+～

• against odds 克服困难
• over the odds 不大可能
• within the odds 可能

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. odds作为名词的基本意思是“可能性,机会”,可指事情发生的可能性,也可指打赌时用数字表示的机会、可能性。

近反义词

【近义词】

• chance