| 单词 | chancy |
| 例句 | Lunch was now out of the question, so was breakfast; and having pap ’n vleis became a sporadic, chancy luxury. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There are not that many subjects that could be spoken about, between us; there’s not much common ground, except this one mysterious and chancy thing. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But here the countryside is too desolate and dry to live off the land, and begging is too chancy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z That was chancy; the fire she'd remem-bered seeing had burnt down to embers, and she heard voices as she was blowing on the coals. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Reading Massasoit’s motives at this distance is a chancy business. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stonecrop, tourism is at best a chancy business.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “A hundred chancy things can happen to rip your suit.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This might be the dumbest idea I’ve ever had; it’s definitely the chanciest. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In such a system, the outcome is a chancy kind of order, always on the verge of descending into chaos, held taut against probability by the unremitting, constant surge of energy from the sun. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The early concerts have had a biting, chancy energy. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Somewhere between the hypnosis of New Age, the grounded wisdom of folk songs and the chancy interplay of jazz improvisation, you’ll find the Aguas Trio. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Throughout the set, Mr. Raghavan fed his own chancy energy into the mix, playing lines of lacing beauty and impelling the others to put their weight forward, onto the balls of their feet. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z His playing is cerebral, and sometimes playful, but, because his vocabulary is so expansive, it is also riveting: in his chancier attempts, he seems unsure himself of where he is going. Listening to Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Alas, that’s a sum no one would spend on such a chancy show, which means we’ll never see its like again. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z It was the manner of the spread that was charming and chancy, the way Twombly's blurts coexisted with a broad, bright spaciousness. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z Despite the timeliness, the show remains a chancy proposition for NBC. NBC risks parental blowback with 'The Slap' 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z A chancy overall approach helps the programming of the five albums resonate. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z When playing with his trio, Mr. Sorey often rearranges his compositions to elicit chancy interplay. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z One must assume that the seasoned "Fargo" viewer is conversant in the mafia movie subgenre, and that makes Hawley's choice to ground the action within that framework a chancy proposition. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Marlene seemed confident about it back in Boston; but in Salt Lake City she makes the Fireflies’ plan sound chancier. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1 Finale: A Deadly Operation 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z It was a fitting, if chancy finale, requiring singer-dancers to make a mad dash after their Sunday matinee in midtown Manhattan. For Tom Hanks et al., a capital evening at Kennedy Center Honors gala 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z In the past year, ENO seems to have got the balance wrong: 11 new productions and only three revivals is a chancy undertaking. The cash-strapped ENO must take a long, hard look at itself 2013-01-18T12:32:13Z Both feature myriad anecdotes of job searches, all with happy endings, but the journey there invariably proves daunting, circuitous and chancy. Don’t Panic, Liberal Arts Majors. The Tech World Wants You. 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z The movie business, it still does the chancy tango. The other 2015 film preview: Clooney, 'Chappie' and Scorsese Jesuits 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It's less chancy than starting from scratch with someone completely new. O'Donnell gets his shot on MSNBC 2010-09-27T20:54:00Z The switch to a less entertainment-centric locale is just one more chancy move in Wyatt's life playing within the Hollywood system, but by his own rules. For 'Gambler' director Rupert Wyatt, a career of rolling the dice 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The leadership at United Artists wanted the company to release more commercial work, while Mr. Ray remained committed to chancier, personal cinema. Bingham Ray, Light of October Films and Daring Cinema 2012-02-03T19:51:30Z Here, then, are eight studio non-sequel releases to watch for in 2015, along with what makes them cool, chancy and weird. The other 2015 film preview: Clooney, 'Chappie' and Scorsese Jesuits 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z This was a big, chancy show that mixed transparency, sex-shop bits, a fabric that looked like Mylar, and macramé knits in saturated colors. Fashion Review: Outside the Met, Fashion?s Overture 2010-09-13T21:33:00Z The driving “Whistle Stop” is a highlight, hinting at her chancier playing to come. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Here, then, are books full of dueling paradigms, uncertain and chancy remembrance — with the past looming both as a resource and as a nightmare, and the future at its mercy. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z During centuries when physical health was chancy and medical remedies few, ritual efforts to manage injury and disease were almost universal. An Art of Faith, Facts and Miracles 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In one key scene, he reduced a chaotic battle to a slow-motion background for the lovers’ crucial real-time interchange: chancy but effective. Seattle Opera rises to the challenges of ‘Il Trovatore’ with two terrific casts 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z This statement hints that he might suspect that the business of making habits and breaking habits, fraught and chancy as it may sometimes be, is not the end of the world. Books Of Style: Three Books on Becoming a Better You — Books of Style 2013-01-04T19:17:52Z But as this chancy viewing geometry suggests, most planets will never transit as seen from Earth, which renders them effectively invisible to this workhorse detection technique. The Sky Is Full of Stars—and Exoplanets, Too 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Placing the orchestra on the stage might seem acoustically chancy: wouldn’t the sound overwhelm the singers? Not seen at Seattle Opera for nearly 60 years, ‘Samson and Delilah’ excites 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z Still, in a crisis, China’s People’s Liberation Army could attempt a chancy gambit like offloading amphibious vehicles from the ferries at sea or using floating causeways, Dahm said. China using civilian ships to enhance navy capability, reach 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “They happened to be at the factory at the same moment and accidentally learned of the other’s plans. Their meeting was really chancy, but it was meant to be.” The harrowing, forgotten journey of the first transatlantic flight 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z “It was a very chancy situation, led by this Hollywood character. One colleague told me I would be throwing away my career.” Donald Pinkel, medical researcher who developed a treatment for childhood leukemia, dies at 95 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z It's a little chancy, but I take a shortcut on a side street past burned-out residential debris looming in the dark. Hell on Earth, small town-style: Climate change transformed my life in 2021 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The first is the use of private funds, rather than the sole backing from space agencies and other governmental institutions, to conduct space science off-world, focusing on a chancy endeavour with no guarantee of success. Scientists Plan Private Mission to Hunt for Earths around Alpha Centauri 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z But when the Olympia plowed through the remnants of a hurricane, tossed by 20-foot waves, it seemed chancy whether the ship would make it, much less the remains stay on board. ‘As important now as it was then’: Unknown Soldier hits century mark with tributes, questions 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Golf is "chancy" in any format, and the Ryder Cup is played once every two years, at least when it's not postponed by a pandemic. US seeks answers to why Europe keeps winning Ryder Cup 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Golf is “chancy” in any format, and the Ryder Cup is played once every two years, at least when it’s not postponed by a pandemic. US seeks answers to why Europe keeps winning Ryder Cup 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z It is true that for a few morning hours, particularly before sunrise, the mercury found itself in a chancy spot for a day in the springtime. Spring cements foothold , as cherry blossoms seem about to start leaving 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Where people come down on this question depends in part on whether they accept the chancy idea that “awareness” of the problem, having been raised, will make a difference. Opinion | ‘We Are Going to Keep You Safe, Even if It Kills Your Spirit’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Venture capital, once a small and chancy field, is now a profit machine for its managers, with all that entails. Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Sad to say this fine, slightly chancy line was decided by something else besides these moments of skill; tipped one way, albeit not decided, by another key intervention from football’s own flawed deus ex machina. VAR to the fore despite excellence of goals in Liverpool’s victory 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Being an artist is at best a chancy, unrewarding business, and one of the few ways I’ve found of coping is to celebrate every little good thing that happens. “Medusa” 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z But it is also a counterpoint to City’s more chancy, feather-footed movements, football that seems almost pigheadedly light and airy, a style that is relentlessly luminous on a point of dogged principle. We’ve finally got one – welcome to a real-life Premier League title race | Barney Ronay 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The fast-breaking dervishes of the second half of last season, powered by the chancy brilliance of Salah’s goal rush? Brilliant Eden Hazard sparkles to win personal duel with Mohamed Salah | Barney Ronay 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z His ball drops into the box and for a second things look chancy, but it’s cleared. Shootout Sunday: Croatia Follows Russia’s Lead and Wins on Penalty Kicks 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z But in chancier corners of the market, a risk-on tone is building. All the action was on the fringes 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z When even going to work seems chancy, trips to the food courts and clothing stands of Plaza Fiesta, a vast Hispanic shopping mall north of Atlanta, have started to seem like a luxury. ‘Please, God, Don’t Let Me Get Stopped’: Around Atlanta, No Sanctuary for Immigrants 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes, they don't leave a shell, but it's chancy. Why Companies Like Toys ‘R’ Us Love to Go Bust in Richmond, Va. 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Communication about the process, updates, colored maps of theater seating with ticket prices, and morning treats made a chancy prospect at getting tickets a nice, memorable Seattle experience. Rant & Rave: Great staff — and treats! — soothes crowds at ‘Hamilton’ box office 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The suddenness of Harvey’s development from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane also made a mandatory evacuation chancy. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z There was no way of knowing until you looked inside, and even then it was chancy. Cooking with kids: The comfort of spaghetti and meatballs 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Predicting the outcome of elections is an inherently chancy endeavour. Britain’s election is the latest occasion to bash pollsters 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z After years of go-slow debate, California is all in on a promising but chancy idea: a green light for self-driving cars. California Editorial Roundup 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Sixty years ago, then, shipping goods internationally was costly, chancy, and immensely time-consuming. The simple steel box that transformed global trade - BBC News 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Then, on the final shot of regulation, Rose cut off a drive by Schroder and forced a chancy shot with two seconds remaining. With Carmelo Anthony Ejected, Knicks Show Defensive Grit but Fall in Overtime 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Carr is just 12 for 20 for 82 yards with one interception on the kind of chancy pass he doesn’t regret this time of year. Raiders QB Derek Carr happy to take risks in preseason 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Still, for most operators on the East End, restaurants are a chancy business. Even Celebrity Chefs Struggle With New Restaurants in the Hamptons 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The chancy part, if you're an executive, is it doesn't get people to like your movie. 'Independence Day: Resurgence' and the variable reliability of nostalgia 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “I think staying is the chancier way of proceeding—a wild ride to political union.” For ‘Brexit,’ Like ‘Grexit,’ It’s Not About Economics 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Providing excess defense articles - especially in Africa - can be chancy. Military Victories Over Boko Haram Mean Little to Nigerians 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Changing the longstanding law school model can be expensive and chancy. The 2-Year Law Education Fails to Take Off 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Their strident attack on Planned Parenthood is chancy enough. Recent Missouri Editorials 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z There has been a hesitation to join — or fund — the chancy and expensive underwater search. Fishing for the first Americans 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The Oncor takeover is chancy, as it depends on winning approval to convert the regulated business into a real-estate investment trust. Energy Future Launches Bid to Exit Bankruptcy 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z They can’t interrupt health care at the jail, and rebidding the contract would be time-consuming and chancy, given the cavalier way the council rejected the previous award. Get the D.C. Council out of the procurement process 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The time will come, as it does for every professional athlete, when Grenier will have to leave the inventing and executing of ever-more chancy and creative tricks to others. Snowboarder with Massachusetts roots travels the globe 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z His strategies can be chancy, quirky, or even defy logic. 'Small ball' has big payoff for UC Irvine baseball and Mike Gillespie 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z He also exposes it as the chancy shell game that it really is. Jenkins: Johnny Manziel isn’t a perfect NFL fit, but the right team might consider some tailoring 2014-05-07T18:18:30Z Hiring the right people is a chancy exercise even in the best of circumstances. He Wanted A Job; Facebook Said No -- In A $3 Billion Mistake 2014-02-20T01:49:00Z “The universe is a chancy place,” said Lloyd. Should Time Travel Be A Moral Imperative? 2013-08-28T11:37:00Z Predictions are as chancy as New Year’s resolutions, but some things are certain. What to Expect in New York in 2013 2012-12-29T18:00:12Z Picking Ryan was a chancy move for a candidate averse to risk. The Two Campaigns of Mitt Romney 2012-09-11T13:05:30Z Too costly, too complicated, and too chancy, even for NASA!” Mars One - Get Your One Way Ticket To The Red Planet 2012-06-19T21:02:16Z Yet my sense was that even the best graduate students in my philosophy Ph.D. program recognized by employment in a job tailor-made for a philosophy Ph.D. was a chancy thing. What does a Ph.D. in chemistry get you? 2012-04-19T12:45:00.417Z They argue it is chancy to try to peer into a psyche in search of “preradicalization.” Gotham: With Muslims, Using a Brush Far Too Broad 2012-01-31T03:55:26Z “It’s a gloomy, chancy spot—and with the dusk falling,” agreed the innkeeper eventually. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z And who knows, the Sun Devils may hit it right with their ultimate choice, so chancy are the eventual results in hiring. ASU search appears to be nearing train-wreck status . . . 2011-12-08T19:58:30Z A blizzard is a chancy thing; and often the first storm of a Western winter is the worst of all. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z It's a daring and chancy strategic move for the maid and her lawyers, legal observers said. Prosecutor mum on Strauss-Kahn maid's public tales 2011-07-26T12:48:00Z It’s a daring and chancy strategic move for the maid and her lawyers, legal observers said. With Strauss-Kahn accuser?s story now public, prosecutors continue complex probe behind scenes 2011-07-25T22:31:43Z Join us in a captivating discussion that will demystify the chancy side of life. The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance [Live Stream] 2011-06-03T19:15:00.487Z When the supremely territorial Yankee Clipper went to the men's room, the glances only got chancier. Ex-White Sox, Yankees star Skowron fighting lung cancer 2011-05-21T18:30:00Z These are typically three to four minute programs, with a single advertiser involved as part of a package sale – a somewhat expensive and chancy undertaking. Bartz's Bet On The Future 2011-04-19T23:09:12Z As chancy as a foray into Florida might seem, it has worked for other Northwest schools. Florida football recruits couldn't wait to get started at Washington State 2011-03-06T02:11:03Z "No. I thought of that, but it was a bit too chancy." The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z The old museum’s efforts, as much about ideas in the air as about art on the way, were always chancy, sometimes a bust. Art Review: Art and News, Intersecting in the Digital Age 2010-10-07T21:47:00Z Of course they might have let go bombs, but, well, Fritz must have been at anything down to 80 feet at the moment they passed over him, and it was chancy shooting. H.M.S. —— There are people hereabouts that are not very chancy. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway “Na,” says my uncle, “but this is no’ a very chancy kind of a proceeding, and I’m bound to be prepared. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) In New York or Chicago, that amount would afford you mighty chancy fare and only a back hall room. Through Our Unknown Southwest It was a chancy plan at best, and would probably break down long before any visit could be made to the city. The Ethical Engineer These unfortunates were left to the rather chancy attentions of the show attendants, who, with thousands of dogs to care for, could hardly be expected to give any of them much individual notice. Finn The Wolfhound It’s no chancy, what ye say micht come to pass if ye believe it. Graham of Claverhouse Include as a factor Hyman by all means, for lacking him our chain of chancy coincidence would lack a most vital link. Sundry Accounts Make all profitable bargains in the name of "Standard Oil," chancy ones in the names of dummies. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated There was, perhaps, a certain wisdom in this, a wisdom of a dashing chancy nature. The Bertrams They know which cars are safe and which are chancy. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Then Travis made a chancy cast for the lower window of the nearest tower. The Defiant Agents On the other hand, a talent that manipulates chance events is bound to be chancy. Accidental Death It would maybe be a chancy business, but these two were like bairns then—and on the doorstep they were married. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Pr’aps it’s a lion, an’ they do say that it’s chancy work to go near a wounded lion. Black Ivory I can't help feeling that a thing like that is always a bit chancy. The Tyranny of Weakness There’s ducks now—chancy things is early ducks, but they pay well. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May But he fell clear of the tree; and these khuds are the most chancy things imaginable. The Great Amulet The Pole's position was chancy enough to satisfy even his melodramatic soul. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Fishing in time is a chancy thing, so don't be disappointed if we don't turn you up that other world. Key Out of Time As his partner in the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and desires entitled to equal consideration? North of Fifty-Three Lord K. made a grimace; he thought this too chancy. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I A dark road, pitted with shell holes and slimy with mud, is chancy. Golden Lads My death’ll come quick and chancy, as I’d have had Each instant of life: but still there are risky years Before me, and a sudden, unlooked-for ending. Krindlesyke You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman. Phineas Redux So he goes away awestricken but unharmed, secretly believing that all chess-players are humbugs, and that intelligent chess, which is neither chancy nor rote-learned, is beyond the wit of man. Certain Personal Matters With a mischievous smile he adds: "As a matter of fact, sometimes I think I should go into that full-time, because the music business is chancy." 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s In vain the Cargo-master and Captain had pointed out that Galactic trade was a chancy thing at the best, that accident might prevent return of the Queen to Sargol. Plague Ship It was chancy work at best, with a possible stumble up against death at every step. Carette of Sark "I don't just like to let a chancy person see her." The Three Black Pennys A Novel It's the instinct of the English and the Irish anyhow to suspect government and take the risks of the chancy way.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through The task of guarding swamp rookeries from the attacks of money-hungry desperadoes to whom the accursed plumes were worth their weight in gold, is a very chancy proceeding. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation It would be a chancy thing and Ali and Rip spent hours checking the mechanics of that flight, while Dane and the recovering Weeks worked with Hovan in an effort to restore the sleeping crew. Plague Ship It's one of them chancy places, of course. John Caldigate He was angry, bitterly angry, with "swats" and "muggers" who spent their whole time grinding for these foolish chancy examinations. Love and Mr. Lewisham Well, on that rude, secure basis there has now been piled the most chancy and insecurely experimental system of conventions and assumptions about money and credit it is possible to imagine. An Englishman Looks at the World And I say all of you,' she went on, 'don't you think it's worth spending ALL the money, if there's even the chanciest chance of getting Father and Mother back safe NOW? The Story of the Amulet "Rather chancy course to take in this business, what?" The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Next comes anywhere in the barrel forward of the short ribs—a chancy proceeding, and one leading to long chases. The Leopard Woman "There's never so much pleasure i' wearing a bonnet the second year, especially when the crowns are so chancy,–never two summers alike." The Mill on the Floss Business—just plain everyday business—is the gamiest, chanciest, most thrilling line there is to-day, and I'm for it. Roast Beef, Medium The figures in the following record of some of the closing games in the first tournament will show, better than any description, how very chancy the game is. Following the Equator — Part 1 And I am in despair after all this bravura which decided me, sustained me, swept me off my feet during this long journey from Paris to this chancy place. Madame Aubin It might be chancy, opening that door; so he peered through a narrow crack at first, listening intently. Merton of the Movies But don't you feel now, really, that City money is always very chancy? The Last Chronicle of Barset Lord love ye, Mart'n," says he, glancing about him, "'tis a chancy place this. Black Bartlemy's Treasure The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days. Following the Equator — Part 1 I am delighted," began Basil, but with a worried face, "but these red-tape negotiations are so terribly chancy that I really can't advise you to build on hope, only to be hurled down into bitterness. The Club of Queer Trades B., who wanted him, decided the shot too chancy. The Land of Footprints It was a time of bewildering apprehension, too, going through the streets of the town, so that a milk cart barely escaped destruction under Mr. Hoopdriver's chancy wheel. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll The buffalo's wide bosses are a helmet to his brain, and the body shot is always chancy. The Land of Footprints |
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