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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, what it is to be young, eager to see the world, greedily on the watch for any chance that brings you nearer the woman of your dreams, and behold two houses open their doors to you!To set foot in the Vicomtesse de Beauseant's house in the Faubourg Saint-Germain; to fall on your knees before a Comtesse de Restaud in the Chaussee d'Antin; to look at one glance across a vista of Paris drawing-rooms, conscious that, possessing sufficient good looks, you may hope to find aid and protection there in a feminine heart!To feel ambitious enough to spurn the tight-rope on which you must walk with the steady head of an acrobat for whom a fall is impossible, and to find in a charming woman the best of all balancing poles.
-- When he reached the street door, the driver of a hackney coach, who had probably just deposited a wedding party at their door, and asked nothing better than a chance of making a little money for himself without his employer's knowledge, saw that Eugene had no umbrella, remarked his black coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, and varnished boots, and stopped and looked at him inquiringly.
-- He was a skilful, thrifty workman, sufficiently enterprising to buy his master's business when the latter fell a chance victim to the disturbances of 1789.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
-- It was neces-sary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.
-- But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
-- 'Yet I cannot ask you to renounce your country and friends to fulfil this task; and now that you are returning to England, you will have little chance of meeting with him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," said Stuart, "she hasn't had a chance to say anything yet.
-- And it'll be ten o'clockbefore Boyd gets a chance to tell her that it wouldn't have been honorable for any of us to stay in college after the waythe Chancellor talked to you and me.
-- It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near bymade Gerald prick up his ears.
-- "Jerry, there's no girl in Savannah you'd have less chance of marrying.
-- "I vow, Mr. O'Hara, she never gives us a chance when there's ahandsome man like you around!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I was standing by a minute, on the chance of company."
-- However, I temporized with myself, of course--for, was I not wavering between right and wrong, when the thing is always done?--and resolved to make a full disclosure if I should see any such new occasion as a new chance of helping in the discovery of the assailant.
-- You never had a chance before you came here, and see how improved you are!"
-- At length, it was voted that there was no help for the angry gentleman, and that he must either go in his chance company or remain behind.
-- I forget in detail what they were, but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama, and to end with crushing it; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he left her by herself; and though he thought it most likely that the wild beasts would tear her in pieces, he felt as if a great weight were tak-en off his heart when he had made up his mind not to kill her but to leave her to her fate, with the chance of someone finding and saving her.
-- Then the four brothers said to each other, 'Here is a chance for us; let us try what we can do.'
-- replied the horse, 'justice and avarice never dwell in one house; my master has forgotten all that I have done for him so many years, and because I can no longer work he has turned me adrift, and says unless I become stronger than a lion he will not take me back again; what chance can I have of that?
-- For a long time she did not know that she had ever had 313any brothers; for her father and mother took care not to speak of them before her: but one day by chance she heard the people about her speak of them.
-- When she went into the kitchen to her work, and be-gan to rake the ashes, the cook said, 'Let that alone till the morning, and heat the king's soup; I should like to run up now and give a peep: but take care you don't let a hair fall into it, or you will run a chance of never eating again.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- By the luckiest chance in the world, I had not discharged myself of any part of it.
-- I made bold to tell her majesty, 'that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which ob-ligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
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