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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now was a chance of which the captain resolved to take advantage.
-- We then decided that, as our only chance of safety was being picked up by the Abraham Lincoln's boats, we ought to manage so as to wait for them as long as possible.
-- I know now that chance has brought before me M. Pierre Aronnax, Professor of Natural History at the Museum of Paris, entrusted with a scientific mission abroad, Conseil, his servant, and Ned Land, of Canadian origin, harpooner on board the frigate Abraham Lincoln of the navy of the United States of America."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Are not the young people growing up today, really dead before they have a chance to live?"
-- "I've not said it at all," he replied, "if you will give me a chance to speak."
-- But you, you spoil your own chance of life you waste your best self."
-- Better a thousand times take one's chance with death, than accept a life one did not want.
-- I'd rather bury them ""Yes but, you see," said Birkin slowly, rather wearily, bored again by this new turn, "they won't give either you or me the chance to bury them, because they're not to be buried."
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings; and I can tell you there is no chance of a change at present.
-- Yes, yes, he's rich enough to live in a finer house than this: but he's very near close handed; and, if he had meant to flit to Thrushcross Grange, as soon as he heard of a good tenant he could not have borne to miss the chance of getting a few hundreds more.
-- I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dress ed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!
-- A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
-- Hareton was impressed with a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness or his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and kissed to death, and in the other of being flung into the fire, or dashed against the wall; and the poor thing remained perfectly quiet wherever I chose to put him.
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