| 单词 | sporting chance |
| 例句 | In general, that should be the guiding principle for remakes: You do one only if the new version has a sporting chance at being better than the original. To remake or not to remake: "Arthur" and others 2011-04-05T16:46:05Z That would keep the numbers down, while giving the foxes more of a sporting chance than the Jackal does. TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Brooke Shields and Urban Fox Attack 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z Even a scoreless draw or 1-0 defeat would leave them a sporting chance before a second leg against a Peru side that could conceivably buckle under the potentially crippling weight of national expectation back home. World Cup play-offs and final qualifiers: 10 things to look out for 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The next two teams on the list, the 1968 Cardinals and 1968 Indians, pitched in a year so offensively anemic that baseball soon lowered the mound to give hitters a sporting chance. Why the Cubs May Finally Win World Series: Starting Pitching 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z It is, rather, to give juvenile offenders a sporting chance, perhaps after decades in prison, to make the case that they deserve to get out, he said. Sidebar: Supreme Court Ruling on Sentencing Yields Split Interpretations 2013-04-29T15:55:51Z With Affleck not nominated this time, and no star directors among the final five, Spielberg has a sporting chance, though the feeling here is that Ang Lee will be cited for Life of Pi. Oscar Countdown: Is Argo a Lock For Best Picture? (And Vote for Your Pick) 2013-02-22T18:35:35Z Yet it may not be clear for several years if these rules will be enforced with enough rigour to give Moneyball a sporting chance against munificence. The business of sport: Greed v pride 2012-09-20T15:00:32Z It used to be that journalists had a sporting chance of protecting their sources. News Analysis: A High-Tech War on Leaks 2012-02-12T01:18:22Z "Give him a sporting chance" means that you must take no unfair advantage of an enemy. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Gentility in the limit of the catch and giving the fish its sporting chance on light tackle constitute the ethical soul of angling. The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout an anthological volume of trout fishing, trout histories, trout lore, trout resorts, and trout tackle 2011-10-28T02:00:26.687Z Out here a man has a chance—a sporting chance; over there it’s a war of chemicals. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z There were parish magazines and temperance monthlies, there were religious almanacs for the years we have lost; by some sporting chance there were even a few back numbers of the “Monumental Mason.” The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Oliver had always been a fighter—no doubt Oliver would be prepared to take the "sporting chance." Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z We part, then, with at least a sporting chance of meeting again. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z After a few seconds' hesitation she struck the ringing rim of her glass against his: "To our new friendship, Monsieur Harlequin!" she said lightly—"with every sporting chance, worldly hazard, and heavenly possibility in it!" The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Now that chap took a real sporting chance, and got his reward for it—both ways. Sea-Hounds In those days Bindle's winning tongue had left Alfred Hearty without even a sporting chance. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle He longed to go on, to tell the man standing by his side what Sir Angus had said as to his having "a sporting chance." Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z If I read this village cut-up right, and I think I do, he’ll take a sporting chance. Young Wallingford Are you afraid to drink to the sporting chances, hazards, accidents, and possibilities of our new friendship, Mrs. Leeds? The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z "Only fair to give the—well, blighter a sporting chance," he explained to Professor Bernardi. Collector's Item But his sword and his shield weren't, and now that the kid had elected to give him a sporting chance, he would teach the young upstart a lesson that he would never forget. A Knyght Ther Was I think you are at liberty to tell him, as from yourself of course, that you have reason to think he has a sporting chance, St. Amant. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z But they truly desire, as a people, that every person in their midst should be given a fair, sporting chance in life. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography And this was the man, now seated beside Estridge, who had coolly and cleverly taken his sporting chance in remaining till the eleventh hour and the fifty-ninth minute in the service of his country. The Crimson Tide A Novel The goal remained but the sporting chance of beating Lennox to it would have departed. The Paliser case They are such genial, accommodating fellows, always ready with a pleasant smile, and willing to take a sporting chance on anything under the sun, that they won my heart at once. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' He gave us what he called a 'sporting chance' because he knew that he is able to send us and all mankind to a doom more terrible than hell. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 I was not able to do that; but I thought we had, in the vulgar phrase, a sporting chance. Hurricane Island For a fourth hole on the short side plenty of sporting chance would constantly be afforded by one of 200 yards length. The Complete Golfer But I want at least a sporting chance for my white-alley, too. The Raid on the Termites Had I a sporting chance or were the odds against me too great? 'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Up to then I had a chance—a sporting chance of recovery. Jonah and Co. “I had thought that he would be more willing to take a sporting chance.” The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man Well, Sir Randle, I—I'm prepared to take a sporting chance. The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts Not that he had any hope, but it was only fair to give even the most abandoned of mankind a sporting chance. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World But I am prepared to take a sporting chance that there are. The Crooked House Mr. Sedgwick has told you that I take a sporting chance of being scragged. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure It is thought that there is at least a sporting chance that some of them will be hoist with their own bacon. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25 However, with the storm increasing and the long dark night ahead, we took a sporting chance, and ran direct in on the cliffs. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell We've mucked it badly enough, but I'm not going to fling it up while there's a sporting chance of finding him. The Grell Mystery "But unless I'm a conceited fool I believe I have a sporting chance at least—and I'd like to show Lady Saxonby she's not the only woman in the world for me!" The Making of a Soul I shall always remember how you called them cowards, and asked for a sporting chance. The Princess of the School On the other hand, it would give you a sporting chance to take off if you're really wild about it. Legacy There might be a sporting chance of victory for her when she moved a step up in the animal kingdom and tackled his mother. The Girl on the Boat You shall win Kelvar now, or I. I'm giving you a sporting chance. Out Around Rigel That is an infantryman's game, and, while extremely hazardous, the men in the trenches have a sporting chance. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army It always left an enterprising individual the sporting chance of dipping a hand into it. The Forfeit Well, then, perhaps there was a sporting chance for him after all! Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley I had spotted a white wrist back of a gleam of polished metal and, taking a sporting chance, I let drive. The Lost Valley All were emphatic that had we been given a sporting chance in a general attack, there would have been nothing wanting in the final result. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 Ten whole minutes in Paradise, and there's always a sporting chance that Gabriel may blow his horn, or an apoplectic stroke rescue one, before the heartless guide yells: "All aboard." I Married a Ranger It gradually dawns upon you that you are among strange birds quite outside the pale of the English Game Laws, and that you will have to take a sporting chance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 Therefore, Di had a sporting chance of being taken for eighteen, the sweet conventional age of a débutante on her presentation. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley We were determined to take a sporting chance on being winged by the watchful guards and have a look round behind those flames for ourselves. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame Sir William thought there was a good sporting chance of success. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I It is now suggested that the London police might be taken off duty for one night in order to give the thief a sporting chance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Oh, for just a sporting chance—to be free even in the midst of his enemies with that in his hand! The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories "I wonder how many of you would have listened to me if I'd gone around to you a week ago and asked you to give me a sporting chance?" Poor Man's Rock It's a sporting chance, Dollops my lad, and we've got to take it. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame "The sporting chance," said Falconer, with an appreciable smile. The Palace of Darkened Windows He had taken a sporting chance when he wrote the pass which had been stolen but because he had probably lost was no reason why he shouldn't play the game out bravely to the end. The Littlest Rebel Finally they sent their representative down to give him a sporting chance. More Toasts The concessionaires take a sporting chance that Leopold will not be thrown out. The Congo and Coasts of Africa Perhaps she did not see exactly, and certainly she did not believe in manufacturing sporting chances in the most momentous matter in the world. V. V.'s Eyes Still, you might give this one a sporting chance, anyhow. The First Hundred Thousand When two fellows fight one of them must receive a beating—-that's the sporting chance. The High School Boys in Summer Camp And modern scientific developments have turned a sporting chance of being scuppered into a mathematical certainty. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand "Nothing will—you know I'm not hankering to die—but I don't mind taking a sporting chance with a game like that." Madcap She forced herself to say: "They think you have a good sporting chance if you stay where you are." From out the Vasty Deep In the open a man feels a sporting chance, at any rate, even if a bullet can beat him on the run; but cooped up within four walls he is paralyzed by his horrible helplessness. In the Claws of the German Eagle There must be no sporting chances in his strategy. The Sky Line of Spruce Such casualties as could walk back walked, others were carried slowly and painfully to a point which the ambulances had a fair sporting chance of reaching intact. Action Front They would carry munitions to Germany if their owners thought they had a sporting chance of not getting caught at it. What is Coming? Even if there's evidence enough to hang a man ten times over, there's always a sporting chance he may get off! From out the Vasty Deep I want him to have a sporting chance, just what other men have. Mr. Standfast He thinks there's a sporting chance of his getting through the lines. Greenmantle "But the beast would certainly have a good sporting chance." The Lost World Exactly the sort of thing to attract a man who likes to take a sporting chance. Captivating Mary Carstairs Frank's was one of those generous, unspoiled natures which never grow blas� at the sight of a fellow human taking a sporting chance at hara-kiri. A Man of Means So that I came to the conclusion that, if only dear old Bobbie didn't forget to go to the wedding, they had a sporting chance of being quite happy. My Man Jeeves I thought myself incompetent, but cleverer men than me thought me competent, or at least competent enough for a sporting chance. Greenmantle The latter use flimsy tackle and complicated gear, and play the game, giving the victims to their wiles a sporting chance. Tropic Days With this addition to the public, the Palace stood a sporting chance of once more finding itself full. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion "He said that he was ashamed of what he did to you without giving you a sporting chance." The Forest Monster of Oz He disdains easy jobs; when he thinks a job is too easy, he makes it harder, just as a sporting chance. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story But this was far worse, for it was more cold-blooded and premeditated, and I didn't seem to have even a sporting chance. Greenmantle Now, treating your appeal to Vesta not only as a solemn invocation of the Goddess, but also as a sporting chance, I intend to have a definite, unquestionable understanding beforehand on every debatable point. The Unwilling Vestal The time of times for steady nerves and perfectly accurate shooting is when a lion, tiger or bear charges the hunter at full speed, beginning sufficiently far away to give the hunter a sporting chance. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I did not give them any sporting chance, either. The Forest Monster of Oz One must diminish dead certainties to the level of sporting chances along here, or one can never get on. Travels in West Africa I am just ringing you up," the voice went on, "to give you what's called a sporting chance. The Evil Shepherd "You might have given me a sporting chance to let you know beforehand I should object." Winding Paths Still there is a sporting chance and luck may be with us.�.�.�. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition I says, 'Well, wot's the matter with giving a fellow a sporting chance?' A Damsel in Distress I had not the faintest notion whether governesses dined with the family or came in afterward with the coffee; but it was a sporting chance, and I took it. The ninth vibration and other stories You've a sporting chance of getting away if you start at once. The Evil Shepherd "Rochester knew his friend had heart disease and that his sudden death would be attributed to it—so he took a sporting chance and administered a fatal dose of aconitine." The Red Seal What a sporting chance this frail bit of a girl was taking! The Amazing Interlude |
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