odds

n. 几率；胜算；不平等；差别

n.

希望，可能性；几率，胜算；掣肘的事情；逆境

双语释义

[P]可能性,机会 the probability that sth will or will not happen

英英释义

odds[ ɔdz ]

n.

the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

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

"he offered odds of two to one"

同义词：betting odds

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

词组短语

at odds with与…争执，意见不一致；与…不和；差异

odds and ends零星物品，零碎东西

against all odds困难重重

odds ratio优势率；让步比

against all the odds尽管有极大的困难；尽管极为不利

the odds are that很可能…；大约…

long odds极不均等的赌注；极为偶然的机会

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The odds are against us.
我们成功的机会很小。

His odds are very poor after he sprained his wrist.
他扭伤了手腕，获胜的可能性极小。

It makes no odds whether Henry goes or stays.
亨利去也好留也好都没有什么关系。

The horse was running at odds of ten to one.
那匹马参赛赔率是十比一。

The odds are on the visiting team.
客队占优势。

权威例句

odds (n.)

in wagering sense, found first in Shakespeare ("2 Henry IV," 1597), probably from earlier sense of "amount by which one thing exceeds or falls short of another" (1540s), from odd (q.v.), though the sense evolution is uncertain. Until 19c. treated as a singular, though obviously a plural (compare news).

1. Ask about the best ways to boost the odds of conception — and options if you have trouble conceiving.

问问关于增加你怀孕几率的最好方法或者你是否有怀孕障碍的问题。

2. Sure, you can raise money but the odds of getting venture capital are high.

当然了，你可以筹集资金，但是风险投资的几率也是非常高的。

3. The odds of having both diseases are thought to be about one in a billion.

这种病症发生的几率被认为是在十亿分之一左右。

4. They used mathematical modelling to calculate the odds of catching the virus on a flight.

他们使用了数学建模计算了乘一次航班感染这种病毒的几率。

5. What if they have a method that, like Srivastava’s frequency-of-occurrence trick, can dramatically increase the odds of winning?

假如他们有办法，像斯利瓦斯塔瓦的出现频率技巧，可以戏剧性地增加赢得的几率？

6. Consider this: Opting for the lowest price, or working excessive hours to avoid debt, increases the odds that a student will drop out.

这一点需要考虑到：选择费用最低的学校或让学生过多打工以避免举债，会增加学生辍学的几率。

7. Furthermore, odds are pretty good that you do different things in your off-time than you might for an employer.

此外，在业余时间做一些不同的兼职会比你只为一个上司效力的胜算要大得多。

8. The odds of the two rocks being part of a binary system is small -- if they were, they should have hit simultaneously.

落入地球的两个宇宙物体同属于一个双星体系的几率是很小的，如果有，它们应该是同时撞击了地球。

9. But remember that by providing accurate and open communication, you increase the odds that your child will understand your values and make appropriate choices about sex.

但要记得，通过精确和开放式的沟通，你的孩子理解你的性方面的价值观并做出合理选择的几率就会增大。

10. All new leaders will be tested in their roles and need to negotiate to improve their odds of success.

所有新任领导都在自己的岗位上得到检验，而他们需要通过谈判来提高成功的胜算。

11. The presence of Ebola-Reston virus on pig farms increases the odds of human exposure and infection.

伊波拉—赖斯顿病毒在猪农场的出现增加了人类接触和感染这种病毒的几率。

12. The odds of developing it increase sharply as people age, but they fall from the age of 84, and plummet from 90 onwards.

在人们变老的时候得癌症的几率会急剧增加，但从84岁起这种几率开始降低，90岁过后则直线下降。

13. They turned to the Middle East, a part of the world with large families and a tendency for cousins to marry, characteristics that increase the odds of finding rare genes.

他们转向中东，这是世界上一个拥有大型家族的区域并且可见表亲结婚的趋势，这些特征使得找到罕见基因的几率大大提高了。

14. I realize that the odds, and science, are against me.

是的，什么概率论、科学…都会反对我，这我懂。

15. Still, the odds were against their encounter on this desolate island, and if Jackson had not appeared when he did, Nansen and Johansen in all likelihood would have died.

尽管如此，他们在这个荒凉的岛上相遇的几率仍然极低，而如果杰克逊没有出现在那里的话，南森和约翰森很有可能就会长眠于当地。

16. And of course you have to believe, sometimes with little data, that you can succeed against the odds.

当然，你还得自信能够立厄运而获胜，即使有时只是根据对少数数据的预测。

17. We can do far more than we think to improve our odds of preventing and surviving even the most horrendous of catastrophes.

甚至在最可怕的灾难面前，我们也可以比想象中做得更多，以提高我们预防和生存的概率。

18. To stack the odds in our favor we therefore need to take into account each one of the three methodologies and hopefully find them to be congruent, meaning that they all point in the same direction.

为了积累有利的可能性，我们需要把三种方法中的每一种方法都考虑在内，并期望发现它们是一致的，或者说它们都指向同一个方向。

19. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.

这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。

20. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean.

这种状况为我创造了最好的机会，如果你们明白我的意思。