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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And, then, they said it was two years now since they were cast away, and there was little chance of finding them.
-- "There is a poor chance of that," said the Major.
-- If by chance some nomadic horseman came in sight far away, he was off again like a dart, not caring to enter into conversation with strangers.
-- The Scotchman was glad of the chance of gleaning some information about his shipwrecked countryman, while the Patagonian hardly cared to encounter the nomadic Indians of the prairie, knowing their bandit propensities.
-- But Glenarvan put his arms round the boy and said, "Why wouldn't you let me or Thalcave run the risk of this last chance of deliverance, my son?"
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sir Charles was a retiring man, but the chance of his illness brought us together, and a communi-ty of interests in science kept us so.
-- 'The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
-- If they are innocent it would be a cruel injustice, and if they are guilty we should be giving up all chance of bringing it home to them.
-- 'Yes, sir, but the chance of five pounds is but a poor thing compared to the chance of having your throat cut.
-- I assure you that there would not be the least chance of your coming back alive.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If they had but known why, at this par- ticular moment, they were both remarkable persons, they would undoubtedly have wondered at the strange chance which had set them down opposite to one another in a third- class carriage of the Warsaw Railway Company.
-- 'Oh dear no, not for the world!Totski's the only man with any chance there.
-- Besides this, it was clear that the Epanchins' position gained each year, with geometrical accuracy, both as to fi-nancial solidity and social weight; and, therefore, the longer the girls waited, the better was their chance of making a brilliant match.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Let's go to dinner," he said, little recking any chance meeting which might trouble his way.
-- Such a chance half-hour with an old friend must not have anything more attached to it than it really warranted.
-- Now was a slight chance to say a word in his own behalf.
-- He smiled when he saw that she took him seriously, and he thought what a chance it would afford for a possible junket of a week or two.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off.
-- The ferryboat was floating with the current, and I allowed I'd have a chance to see who was aboard when she come along, because she would come in close, where the bread did.
-- 'Well, I reckon there's a right smart chance of people HERE that'd like to know who killed him.
-- Then I told her my father and mother was dead, and the law had bound me out to a mean old farmer in the country thirty mile back from the river, and he treated me so bad I couldn't stand it no lon-ger; he went away to be gone a couple of days, and so I took my chance and stole some of his daughter's old clothes and cleared out, and I had been three nights coming the thirty miles.
-- 'I bet they didn't!Why, great goodness, there ain't no chance for 'em if they don't git off mighty quick!Why, how in the nation did they ever git into such a scrape?'
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Tell me," asked the Pigeon, "do you by chance know of a Marionette, Pinocchio by name?"
-- If the chance comes, I shall be there."
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