odds
/ɑdz/ 名词 B2中文： 几率、可能性、赔率
- The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening. · I'd say the odds are strongly in favor of the sun rising tomorrow morning.
- The ratio of winnings to stake in betting situations. · I looked at the odds given by all bookmakers.
- An advantage given to a weaker opponent in order to equalize the game when playing casually, usually by removing one of the stronger player's pieces or by giving the weaker player more time. · She beat me with knight odds but lost with rook odds.· The grandmaster gave his opponents significant time odds, of one minute versus ten minutes.
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The monkeys never fight unless they are a hundred to one, and few in the jungle care for those odds.
“Now, if I kill him here, Nagaina will know; and if I fight him on the open floor, the odds are in his favor.
Look, for example, at the queer lot of things which he took from Acton’s—what was it?—a ball of string, a letter-weight, and I don’t know what other odds and ends.”
If he goes by road with his legs all dripping, it’s odds that someone will notice him.
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