(noun.) the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring.
(noun.) the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another; 'he offered odds of two to one'.
录入:欧文
双语例句
His tools were old bottles, glasses, tobacco-pipes, teacups, and such odds and ends as he could find. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
That makes no odds. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
A day makes no such odds. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The odds are enormous against its being coincidence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Give out by driblets, and never inquire for odds and ends,--it isn't beSt. That troubles me, Augustine. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
What odds, dear boy? 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
What's the odds where it comes from? 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
It's too bad, for there is no time to make other things, and I don't want to fill up with odds and ends. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
They fought with desperate valor, but to no purpose; the odds of heat and numbers, and consuming thirst, were too great against them. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
What odds in that? 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
Never, until I saw you fight, had I seen one who seemed unconquerable even in the face of great odds. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.火星战神.
Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
The odds sheets showed he would pay thirty-five to one. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.
There's no great odds betwixt us. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.