odds
n. 希望,可能性; 几率,胜算; 掣肘的事情; 逆境
You refer to how likely something is to happen as the odds that it will happen.
What are the odds of finding a parking space right outside the door?...
就在门口找到停车位的可能性有多大?
The odds are that you are going to fail.
你很可能会失败。
In betting, odds are expressions with numbers such as '10 to 1' and '7 to 2' that show how likely something is thought to be, for example how likely a particular horse is to lose or win a race.
Gavin Jones, who put £25 on Eugene, at odds of 50 to 1, has won £1,250.
加文·琼斯以50比1的赔率赌尤金胜,他下注25英镑,赢了1,250英镑。
If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or quarrelling with each other.
He was at odds with his Prime Minister...
他与首相不和。
An adviser said there was no reason why the two countries should remain at odds.
一位顾问说这两个国家不会一直这样争执下去。
If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed.
He reckoned the odds are against the scheme going ahead...
他认为目前实施这项计划的希望渺茫。
I'm sorry. I just feel as if the odds are stacked up against me.
对不起,我只是觉得情况好像对我很不利。
If something happens against all odds, it happens or succeeds although it seemed impossible or very unlikely.
Some women do manage to achieve business success against all odds...
尽管困难重重,一些女性还是在商场上获得了成功。
Finally, late in life and against considerable odds, she became a nun.
她排除极大困难,最终在晚年成为了一名修女。
If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing.
His troops will only engage in a ground battle when all the odds are in their favour.
他的部队只有在胜券在握的时候才打地面战。
To shorten the odds on something happening means to make it more likely to happen. To lengthen the odds means to make it less likely to happen. You can also say that the odds shorten or lengthen .
His reception there shortened the odds that he might be the next Tory leader.
他在那里得到的反应使他更有望成为英国保守党下一任领导人。
1. the probability of a specified outcome
2. the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another;
it makes no odds
(非正式,主英)没有关系,无关紧要
lay (或 give) odds
(打赌时)让对方一筹
over the odds
(英)(尤指价格)超过正常的
take odds
占优势
what's the odds?
(非正式)那有什么关系?
at odds
争执:不同意;意见冲突
by all odds
毫无疑问地:在每个可能的方法上;毫无疑问地
Whether they go or stay, it makes no odds.
他们是去是留都没多大关系.
The odds are against him.
形势对他不利
I ask no odds of them.
我不求他们给以恩惠.
Odds have evened between the champions.
争夺冠军的两名选手得胜的机会均等.
Against all odds, he finished the work.
尽管很困难, 他仍完成了这项工作.