chancy

1 Building your own home is a chancy business.

2 But as Raoul points out, “life is always a chancy business.”

3 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.

4 Why does so much of workers’ pay still come in the form of chancy profit-sharing deals rather than steady wages?

5 In the past year, ENO seems to have got the balance wrong: 11 new productions and only three revivals is a chancy undertaking.

6 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.

7 It may well have felt like a chancy buy back then, but its status has since become high.

8 As marketing strategies go, it’s a chancy one: Gin up excitement for a book by declining to name the author.

9 During centuries when physical health was chancy and medical remedies few, ritual efforts to manage injury and disease were almost universal.

10 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.

11 Lunch was now out of the question, so was breakfast; and having pap ’n vleis became a sporadic, chancy luxury.

12 Although these places are chancy and illegal the rent they charge is all I can afford, he said.

他说：“虽然这些地方有一定风险也不合法，但是只有他们收取的房租是我能付得起的。”

13 Despite the timeliness, the show remains a chancy proposition for NBC.

14 Lifelong recommendations based on studies of roughly 50 patients and for no longer than three months seem a bit chancy.

15 The chancy meeting in Singapore made the situation worse.

在新加坡的邂逅更是加剧了这种情况。

16 It's a little chancy, but I take a shortcut on a side street past burned-out residential debris looming in the dark.

17 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.

18 This was a big, chancy show that mixed transparency, sex-shop bits, a fabric that looked like Mylar, and macramé knits in saturated colors.

19 It boils down to one question: Is bold but chancy, or bland but predictable, better when it comes to taking on Donald Trump in November?

20 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.

1 偶然发生的

contingent incidental causeless

2 不确定的

wobbly neutral unsure obscure uncertain questionable cloudy ambiguous doubtful borderline precarious indeterminate unfixed touch-and-go dubitable vague tentative indefinite tremulous in doubt dubious iffy dicey general unclear erratic unresolved hazy nameless equivocal disputable shoestring uneasy inconclusive dodgy sneaking be in doubt open to doubt

3 不定

various catchy indefinite indeterminate mutable equivocal adventitious desultory irresolute variability vacillate

4 反覆无常的

light mobile unstable volatile freaky mercurial mutable capricious unsteady freakish skittish flighty light-headed inconstant kittle weathery

5 不定的

various catchy indefinite indeterminate mutable equivocal adventitious desultory irresolute

6 危险的

riskful near hot serious dangerous tight risky hazardous unsafe adventurous rum stirring uncanny precarious threatening perilous dicey parlous pestilent venturesome pestiferous trappy unchancy chanceful high wire ugly desperate lively unhealthy dodgy treacherous breakneck

7 偶然发生

contingent happen hap chance incidental causeless fortune

8 冒险的

risky dangerous hazardous daring wildcat dangerously dicey venturesome buccaneering adventurous unhealthy perilous heroic dodgy adventuresome venturous chanceful

9 不确定

vague tentative indefinite precarious tremulous doubt uncertainty on tenterhooks in doubt uncertain doubtful dubious indeterminate iffy dicey touch-and-go question confusion general unclear obscure erratic unresolved hazy nameless equivocal disputable shoestring peradventure indetermination unsettle uneasy inconclusive be in doubt in question questionable borderline dodgy sneaking hover open to doubt be on shaky ground

10 不确实的

dicey

11 不可靠的

false tricky uncertain slippery insecure unreliable unfaithful unsound incalculable faithless flyaway delusive unchristian

12 不确实

dicey uncertainty peradventure

13 不可信

incredible inauthentic faithlessly inauthenticity

14 不可靠

false tricky uncertain slippery insecure unreliable unfaithful unsound incalculable faithless flyaway delusive unchristian uncertainty slippery as an eel

15 有风险

at stake

16 危险

riskful near hot serious dangerous tight risky hazardous unsafe adventurous rum stirring uncanny precarious threatening perilous dicey parlous pestilent venturesome pestiferous trappy unchancy chanceful risk chance threat danger hazard peril menace jeopardy uncanniness high wire ugly desperate lively unhealthy dodgy treacherous breakneck insecurity unsafety the moment of truth

17 幸运

sonsy auspicial happy successful fortunate blessed gracious auspicious fortuitous canny well-off providential propitious felicitous sonsie happily chance score fair luck venture happiness fortune mercy fluke felicity hap godspeed lucky prosperous inboard roseate fortunately luckily jammy speed bonanza Godspeed light on feet

18 幸运的

sonsy auspicial happy successful fortunate blessed gracious auspicious fortuitous canny well-off providential propitious felicitous sonsie lucky prosperous roseate

19 反覆无常

light mobile unstable volatile freaky mercurial mutable capricious unsteady freakish skittish flighty light-headed inconstant kittle weathery mercuriality mobility whiffle play fast and loose

20 靠不住的

questionable contingent irresponsible shaky treacherous fishy faithless equivocal fly-by-night dicey untrustful

21 冒险

hazardous wildcat dicey venturesome chance adventure gambling gamble run the gauntlet take a chance take chances tempt fate buccaneering risk-taking risky adventurous throw venture liberty hazard peril jeopardy run risk jeopardize jeopard sail near the wind skate on thin ice at ones peril chance arm shoot the rapids unhealthy daring perilous spec on spec stick neck out put at risk play with fire be skating on thin ice stick your neck out flyer chance your arm put your neck on the line push it your luck heroic dodgy adventuresome venturous chanceful jump escapade gest emprise tightrope dare run risks go on the hook jump in at the deep end