| 单词 | opportunity |
| 释义 | op·por·tu·ni·ty 1. a. < the many small rivers … offered unlimited opportunities for water transport — American Guide Series: Rhode Island > < artists are given opportunity to do creative work — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > b. < to strike out in search of new opportunities in new surroundings — H.S.Truman > < sons of poor and ignorant farmers, blacksmiths, tanners and backwoodsmen, with few opportunities — E.G.Conklin > 2. obsolete 3. 4. archaic 5. Synonyms: < it was deemed advisable to continue the case … in order that we might have an opportunity of giving to the whole subject a more deliberate consideration — R.B.Taney > occasion is likely to convey the notion of the period or time at which an opportunity is offered; since this may be fleeting, occasion may suggest a combination of circumstances that are urgent and quite likely to evoke action or that have evolved in < afterward she can explain … as occasion shall require — F.W.Maitland > < so long as a child is with adults, it has no occasion for the exercise of a number of important virtues — Bertrand Russell > chance is close to opportunity in this sense < the most challenging opportunity of all history — the chance to help create a new society — Wendell Willkie > It may suggest a situation arising accidentally < in war lay the greatest chance of his life — H.L.Mencken > or a fair situation arising in an equitable allotment of things < only those who have a special cause to plead will hold that … children of the poor [have] the same chances as those of the well-to-do — John Dewey > break, formerly a slang term and more common in the United States than in England, suggests a turn of luck or an opportunity offered by luck or by an act of kindliness from one with power or influence < not a single day of storm, not one day of flat calm, only a few days of variables did he experience. He had all the breaks — S.E.Morison > < Communist promises of a better break for the common people — A.E.Stevenson b. 1900 > time may be used as a synonym for opportune time or occasion < an adversary of no common prowess was watching his time — T.B.Macaulay > |
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