| 单词 | game of chance | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgame of chance  P16.    game of chance: a game in which the outcome is dependent on luck or chance, rather than the skill of the player; (in extended use) an event, process, or phenomenon over which one has no control. ΚΠ 1660    G. Havers tr.  M. de Scudéry Clelia IV.  ii. 128  				Amongst the rest..there was introduc'd a kind of a game of chance. 1709    J. Edwards Preacher  iii. 197  				They Condemn all Playing at Cards, viz. because it is a Game of Chance. 1806    Ann. Reg. 388  				An unlawful game of chance,..formerly known by the name of the Little Go. 1857    R. Whately Introd. Lessons on Morals xviii. 153 		(note)	  				People may..play at games of chance without any stake at all. And..at billiards, which is altogether a game of skill, much gambling often takes place. 1922    Child Labor Oyster & Shrimp Canning Communities 		(U.S. Dept. Labor: Children's Bureau Publ. No. 98.)	 46  				A captain of one of the cannery boats said, ‘It all depends on the weather in our work, and the weather is something you never can count on. It's a game of chance.’ 1979    Technol. Rev. Mar.  b23  				Unlike chess, which has limited predictable moves, winks is a game of chance as well as skill. 2007    L. A. Smith Chaos: Very Short Introd. i. 19  				[He] was fond of..games of chance, especially those in which chance played a somewhat lesser role that the participants happened to believe. < as lemmas  | 
	
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