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单词 off chance
释义
off chance
noun
informal
uk
/ˈɒf ˌtʃɑːns/us
/ˈɑːf ˌtʃæns/
on the off chance
hopingthat something may bepossible,althoughit is notlikely:
抱着一线希望；侥幸一试，碰运气
Iappliedfor thejobon the offchancethat they might like me, but I didn'tseriouslyexpectto get it.我怀着一线希望申请了这份工作，不过我没真的指望能得到它。
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(Definition ofoff chancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoff chance

off chance
It is difficult to leave intensive care beds open on theoffchancethat a flu epidemic may occur.
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The local communities will find it unacceptable to reserve the whole estate merely on theoffchancethat there will be a military requirement.
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One of the troubles with our general legislation on taxation is that we hit everybody in sight, on theoffchanceof hitting someone who deserves to be hit.
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There is no need at all to require officers to duplicate their pocket book entries at the time, just on theoffchancethat they might subsequently be wanted.
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He retrieved a sample of mouse brain infected with polio virus and added it to the remaining test tubes, on theoffchancethat the virus might grow.
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These men have to go to the docks every morning and dinner-time, and sometimes at 5 o'clock in the evening on theoffchanceof getting half-a-day's work.
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