| 单词 | by hazard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby hazard P5. by hazard: by chance, fortuitously, without design or plan, randomly. ΚΠ 1548 F. Bryan tr. A. de Guevara Dispraise Life Courtier xi. sig. h.iiii Your saiyng shuld be good if they yt were of the best knowlege & the most verteous nomber wer auaunced for their prudence, as the other be by hazard and chaunce. 1606 A. Craig Amorose Songes sig. Gviv I put my hand by hazard in the hat..A fortune blind, or niuie nake to trie. 1775 Covent-Garden Mag. Apr. 145/2 Our friend Bonneau, always well inclined, proposed to them to decide it by hazard, as was the custom with ancient warriors in heroical times. 1876 C. Darwin Effects Cross & Self Fertilisation Veg. Kingdom ix. 339 Two plants taken by hazard were protected under separate nets. 1930 J. T. Russell tr. G. H. Luquet Art & Relig. Fossil Man v. 117 Figured art..must necessarily have been preceded by a preliminary phase in which figured works had been produced, not intentionally, but by hazard. 2002 Kenyon Rev. 24 81 They have been recruited, often by hazard, by the roll of a dice, into cartels. < as lemmas |
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