chancy
adj. 不確實的,不安的
Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
Investment is becoming a chancy business.
投資正變成一項風險事業。
1. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk;
2. subject to accident or chance or change;
Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.
投資正變成一項風險事業。
If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.
如果這種進步的方法好像太碰機會,也太浪費了, 它的缺點也不無利益的功績.
That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.
那事做起來可真危險, 當時你很有可能會受重傷.
Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.
不過, 這種間接資訊和暗自抑制的方式,畢竟還是太慢,而且也不太確實.
That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been killed.
那事做起來可真危險, 當時你很有可能會遇害.