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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I do not know what put it into my head to ask:"I say, have you by any chance run across a painter called Charles Strickland?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would not take less than an hour to get to it, and then there was the chance of falling to leeward.
-- Some extraordinary opportunity was needed to make the attempt with any chance of success, and this opportunity not only did not present itself, but was very difficult to find.
-- The castaways proceeded toward the north of the land on which chance had thrown them, an unknown region, the geographical situation of which they could not even guess.
-- On the way, Pencroft asked him in the most natural tone, if by chance he happened to have a match or two.
-- "Not a trace," replied the reporter; "besides, if by chance you had met with some deliverer there, just in the nick of time, why should he have abandoned you after having saved you from the waves?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's the chance of an action for breach, that's another.
-- There's the chance of no, there's no chance of that, but it's as well to be on the safe side.'
-- First, one sleek bird, hovering near his ragged house as it swung and dangled in the wind, uttered his hoarse cry, quite by chance as it would seem, and in a sober tone as though he were but talking to himself.
-- When he came to the corner of the court in which he lived, lo and behold there was the pony again!Yes, there he was, looking more obstinate than ever; and alone in the chaise, keeping a steady watch upon his every wink, sat Mr Abel, who, lifting up his eyes by chance and seeing Kit pass by, nodded to him as though he would have nodded his head off.
-- As this thinking of it, plainly meant the thinking of engaging Kit, he immediately partook of his mother's anxiety and fell into a great flutter; for the little old couple were very methodical and cautious, and asked so many questions that he began to be afraid there was no chance of his success.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had made it the aim of his young life, not merely by word, but in reality, to serve others, and thought he saw his chance of doing so in government service.
-- "That was done, but there is no chance of success.
-- All this was taking place in the court-yard of the prison, while without the prison stood the usual armed soldier, about two dozen trucks for the baggage, and the infirm convicts, and on the corner a crowd of relatives and friends of the convicts, waiting for a chance to see the exiles as they emerged from the prison, and, if possible, to have a last few words with them, or deliver some things they had brought for them.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- she said, as soon as there was a chance of making herself heard.
-- 'Of course I don't think so!Why, if ever I did fall off which there's no chance of but if I did ' Here he pursed his lips and looked so solemn and grand that Alice could hardly help laughing.
-- And now, if e'er by chance I putMy fingers into glueOr madly squeeze a right-hand footInto a left-hand shoe,Or if I drop upon my toeA very heavy weight,I weep, for it reminds me so,Of that old man I used to know Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow,Whose hair was whiter than the snow,Whose face was very like a crow,With eyes, like cinders, all aglow,Who seemed distracted with his woe,Who rocked his body to and fro,And muttered mumblingly and low,As if his mouth were full of dough,Who snorted like a buffalo That summer evening, long ago,A-sitting on a gate.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it a blind man!And I'm to lose my chance for you!I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still."
-- You don't catch me tasting rum so much, but just a thimbleful for luck, of course, the first chance I have.
-- With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad again.
-- You see, sir," he went on, "if once we dropped to leeward of the landing-place, it's hard to say where we should get ashore, besides the chance of being boarded by the gigs; whereas, the way we go the current must slacken, and then we can dodge back along the shore."
-- I took my way straight for the east coast of the island, for I was determined to go down the sea side of the spit to avoid all chance of observation from the anchorage.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come, Conseil," said I, "this is the last chance of pocketing the two thousand dollars."
-- I fancy we shall run a fair chance of being laughed at for our pains."
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