chancy中文什么意思

adj.
1.〔口语〕不确实的，危险的。
2.〔苏格兰语〕幸运的〔常用于否定句〕。

• a chancy business:    冒险的生意

例句与用法

1. Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy .
   不过，这种间接信息和暗自抑制的方式，毕竟还是太慢，而且也不太确实。
2. If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults .
   如果这种进步的方法好像太碰机会，也太浪费了，它的缺点也不无利益的功绩。
3. That was a chancy thing to do ; you could have been killed
   那事做起来可真危险，当时你很有可能会遇害。
4. He never turned back . his departure seemed to be followed by a journey in a winding train that was taking him into the chancy future in the infinite twilight
   他一直没有回头，他仿佛坐上一串很长很长的列车，在茫茫夜色中开往朦胧的未来。

英文释义

形容词

1. subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
   同义词：fluky, flukey, iffy
2. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
   同义词：chanceful, dicey, dodgy