chance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 机会； 可能性； 偶然性， 运气v. 碰巧， 偶然发生，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is doubtful if Leora herself had a chance to say anything, for he poured out his every confidence as a disciple of Gottlieb.
-- I just simply can't get myself to fuss over my clothes, and here you're going to go and look so spiffy I won't have a chance with you."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- flashed as it were by chance through Raskolnikov's mind, and with a rapid glance he scanned everything in the room, trying as far as possible to notice and remember its arrangement.
-- There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
-- But why, he was always asking himself, why had such an important, such a decisive and at the same time such an absolutely chance meeting happened in the Hay Market (where he had more-over no reason to go) at the very hour, the very minute of his life when he was just in the very mood and in the very circumstances in which that meeting was able to exert the gravest and most decisive influence on his whole destiny?
-- 'And what a chance I have lost for ever!'
-- This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there havebeen times since, in my manhood, many times there have been,when I have thought, Is it possible, among the possibilities ofhidden things, that in the sudden rashness of the child and herwild look so far off, there was any merciful attraction of her intodanger, any tempting her towards him permitted on the part ofher dead father, that her life might have a chance of ending thatday.
-- He entreatedme more than once to come in and win, but what with his table-spoon to my tea-spoon, his despatch to my despatch, and hisappetite to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouthful,and had no chance with him.
-- From myearliest infancy she seems to have been always employed in thatclass of needle-work, and never by any chance in any other.
-- On oneoccasion, when an execution had just been put in, coming homethrough some chance as early as six o'clock, I saw her lying (ofcourse with a twin) under the grate in a swoon, with her hair alltorn about her face; but I never knew her more cheerful than shewas, that very same night, over a veal-cutlet before the kitchen fire,telling me stories about her papa and mamma, and the companythey used to keep.
-- It's according tocircumstances, and the wind, and so forth; but I take my chance ofthat.'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She knows now what gentlemen are; and nothing but a gentleman in education and manner has any chance with Harriet.'
-- 'But still, not near enough to give me a chance of being right, if we think differently.'
-- Harriet was farther unfortunate in the tone of her com-panions at Mrs. Goddard's; Mr. Elton being the adoration of all the teachers and great girls in the school; and it must be at Hartfield only that she could have any chance of hearing him spoken of with cooling moderation or repellent truth.
-- We are both prejudiced; you against, I for him; and we have no chance of agreeing till he is really here.'
-- I was afraid there could be little chance of my hearing any thing of Miss Fairfax to-day.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I'm only an every-day sort of man, and my only chance was in being the first comer.... Well, there's no use in my waiting, for that was all I came about: so I'll take myself off home-along, Mrs.
-- Separation, which was the means that chance offered to Gabriel Oak by Bathsheba's disappearance, though effectual with people of certain humours, is apt to idealize the removed object with others notably those whose affection, placid and regular as it may be, flows deep and long.
-- It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.
-- Moreover, by chance or by devilry, the ministrant was antecedently made interesting by being a handsome stranger who had evidently seen better days.
-- Troy was full of activity, but his activities were less of a locomotive than a vegetative nature; and, never being based upon any original choice of foundation or direction, they were exercised on whatever object chance might place in their way.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Taillefer felt attracted, perhaps unconsciously, by the strength of the one man, and the good looks of the other; her stolen glances and secret thoughts were divided between them; but neither of them seemed to take any notice of her, although some day a chance might alter her position, and she would be a wealthy heiress.
-- As a matter of fact, she was as suspicious as a cat; but she was like many other people, who cannot trust their own kin and put themselves at the mercy of the next chance comer--an odd but common phenomenon, whose causes may readily be traced to the depths of the human heart.
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