chance简单

Thanks to his invention, we have a real chance to decrease the world’s carbon emissions.

多亏了他的发明，我们才有了切实的机会减少全球碳排放。

The findings showed that help-seekers generally underestimate how [willing] other people will be to help and how good it will make the help-giver feel (for most people, having the chance to help someone is highly [rewarding]).

研究结果显示，求助者普遍低估了别人有多{{17}}提供帮助，也低估了帮忙会让助人者感觉多好（对大多数人来说，有机会帮助别人是非常{{18}}的）。

(50) High growth rates increased the chances for academic innovation; they also weakened the forms and processes by which teachers and students are admitted into a community of scholars during periods of stability or slow growth.

(50) 高增长率增加了学术创新的机会；但也削弱了在稳定或缓慢增长时期教师和学生得以进入学者共同体的形式和过程。

However, critics say the big companies use such deals to buy their most threatening potential competitors before their businesses have a chance to gain momentum, in some cases as part of a “buy and kill” tactic to simply close them down.

然而，批评者表示，大公司利用此类交易，在最具威胁的潜在竞争对手的业务有机会发展壮大之前就将其买下，有时这是“收购并扼杀”策略的一部分，直接将其关闭。

When this practice first started decades ago, it was usually limited to freshmen, to give them a second chance to take a class in their first year if they struggled in their transition to college-level courses.

几十年前这种做法刚出现时，通常仅限于新生，目的是在他们难以适应大学水平的课程时，给他们在第一年再上一次某门课的机会。

Then the kids were handed chocolate coins, and given a chance to share them with an anonymous child.

然后，孩子们拿到了巧克力金币，并有机会与一个匿名的孩子分享。

At the time of creation, no attempts were made at intentional preservation, yet analog materials have a chance of surviving and serving as the historical record that biographers, historians, and novelists rely on.

在创作之时，人们并没有刻意去保存它们，但模拟（实物）材料却有机会留存下来，成为传记作家、历史学家和小说家所依赖的历史记录。

High school students eager to stand out in the college application process often participate in a litany of extracurricular activities hoping to bolster their chances of admission to a selective undergraduate institution.

渴望在大学申请过程中脱颖而出的高中生常常参加一连串的课外活动，希望借此提高被一所择优录取的本科院校录取的机会。

Somehow, when you hit 30, the chance that something exciting and new will happen at that party just doesn’t seem to outweigh the effort of getting up off the couch.

不知怎么的，到了30岁，在那场派对上可能会发生令人兴奋的新鲜事，这种可能性似乎已经抵不过从沙发上起身所要花费的力气了。

chances

可能性

increases the chance of being penalized.

增加受罚的几率。

If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphins, improve blood flow to our hearts and even have a greater chance of fighting off infection.

如果我们成年人能放纵自己犯点傻、咯咯笑一笑，就能减少体内的压力激素，增加内啡肽等有益激素，改善心脏的血液流动，甚至更有可能抵御感染。

by chance

偶然

If you look at the apps on your phone, chances are you have at least one related to your health — and probably several.

如果你看看手机上的应用程序，很可能至少有一个与你的健康有关——而且可能有好几个。

They aren’t interested in taking any chances.

他们无意冒任何风险。

Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

很可能，你的头像照片如今被人看到的次数比一二十年前多得多。

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

《葬礼进行曲》不是《英雄交响曲》的最后一个乐章，而是第二乐章，这并非偶然，这样苦难就不会成为最终的定论。