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。
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me my life; for, one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the governess who attended Glumdal-clitch very officiously lifted me up, to place me in the boat: but I happened to slip through her fingers, and should in-fallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a corking-pin that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomach-er; the head of the pin passing between my shirt and the waistband of my breeches, and thus I was held by the mid-dle in the air, till Glumdalclitch ran to my relief.
-- I cried out, as in a rapture, 'Happy nation, where every child hath at least a chance for being immortal!Happy peo-ple, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages!but happiest, beyond all comparison, are those excellent struldbrugs, who, being born exempt from that universal calamity of human nature, have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehensions of death!'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Because if you come, there's a good chance of old Bounderby's asking me to dinner; and if you don't, there's none.'
-- Not only did he see no Rachael all the time, but he avoided every chance of seeing her; for, although he knew that the prohibition did not yet formally extend to the women working in the factories, he found that some of them with whom he was acquainted were changed to him, and he feared to try others, and dreaded that Rachael might be even singled out from the rest if she were seen in his company.
-- Before he had so much as closed Mr. Bounderby's door, he had reflected that at least his being obliged to go away was good for her, as it would save her from the chance of being brought into question for not withdrawing from him.
-- 'T may be long, Rachael, ere ever I ha th' chance o' thy coompany agen.'
-- Father, chance then threw into my way a new acquaintance; a man such as I had had no experience of; used to the world; light, polished, easy; making no pretences; avowing the low estimate of everything, that I was half afraid to form in secret; conveying to me almost immediately, though I don't know how or by what degrees, that he understood me, and read my thoughts.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consequently, no chance of discovering the right aperture.
-- It was absolutely necessary to trust to chance and good fortune!
-- Our peculiar journey had no chance of being diversified by landscape and scenery.
-- One chance in a thousand is always a chance, while death from hunger gave us not even the faintest glimpse of hope.
-- It left to the imagination nothing but blank horror, without the faintest chance of escape!
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was not going to risk any chance comer, not she!One might take a lover almost at any mo-ment, but a man who should beget a child on one...wait!
-- Towards Connie the Squire was always rather gallant; he thought her an at-tractive demure maiden and rather wasted on Clifford, and it was a thousand pities she stood no chance of bringing forth an heir to Wragby.
-- India, Egypt, then India again: the blind, thoughtless life with the horses: the colonel who had loved him and whom he had loved: the several years that he had been an officer, a lieutenant with a very fair chance of being a captain.
-- But that was most unlikely: not one chance in a hundred.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She has too much character to let a chance escape her.'
-- Very likely he would be thankful himself (and with reason), that he had had the means and chance of doing a little service to her, who well deserved a great one.
-- By this time they had visited the family on several occasions, and had always observed that even a passing allusion to Mr Henry Gowan when he was not among them, brought back the cloud which had obscured Mr Meagles's sunshine on the morning of the chance encounter at the Ferry.
-- 'It is a curious chance which at last brings us together, under this covering in which you have wrapped me,' said the visitor after a pause; 'for do you know, I think I have been looking for you some time.'
-- As the old gentleman inhabited the highest story of the palace, where he might have practised pistol-shooting without much chance of discovery by the other inmates, his younger niece had taken courage to propose the restoration to him of his clarionet, which Mr Dorrit had ordered to be confiscated, but which she had ventured to preserve.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said... 'We can't give up our girls for a dozen fortunes.
-- But he got no chance to deliver it, for Meg kept away from him till he came to say good night.
-- Now, Miss Sallie, you shall have a chance without waiting to draw.
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