odds
🇬🇧/ɒdz/ 🇺🇸/ɑːdz/📚 3260 2考研托福雅思You refer to how likely something is to happen as the odds that it will happen. 可能性
noun [抽象名词]（事物发生的）可能性，机会；困难，不利条件；投注赔率；（力量、权力或资源上的）优势
What were the odds against?
赔率是多少？
- odds 出现在下面的课文中（提供视频、音频及笔记等可系统性学习）
- Lesson 37 The process of ageing odds 名词: 可能性
- Lesson 45 The power of the press
奇奇(odd)相加(add)为偶
单词造句:
- 网友用“Odds”造句精选
- What are the odds of finding a parking space right outside the door? 就在门外找到一个停车位的可能性有多大？
- We are offering odds of 6-1 on the fight ending in a knockout. 我们以6比1的赔率赌该拳击赛以击倒告终。
- He was at odds with the boss. 他与老板不合。
- He reckons the odds are against the plan going ahead. 他认为该计划不太可能进行下去。
- ...families in terrible circumstances, who have stayed together against all odds. …状况糟糕的家庭，似乎不可能维持下去，却仍然住在一起。
- The troops will only engage in a ground battle when all the odds are in their favour. 该部队只会在完全可能取胜的情况下进行一场地面战斗。
- It's odds-on that he'll be late. 他多半要迟到。
odds的重要知识点
odds n. 可能性；困难，逆境
- The odds are (that) you're going to fail.
- The odds are that it will rain before we reach the summit. 很有可能我们还没到山顶就会下雨。
| the odds are in favor of … 胜算很大；形势对...有利 |
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| the odds are against … 胜算很小；形势对...不利 |
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against (all) the odds 尽管困难重重；出人意料地
- Against (all) the odds she achieved her dream of becoming a ballerina.
- Against all the odds, the small team managed to win the national championship. 尽管困难重重，这支小队伍竟然赢得了全国冠军。
| beat / overcome the odds 战胜困难；克服不利条件 | She overcame the odds of her upbringing to become a successful doctor. 她克服了成长环境中的种种不利条件，成为了一名成功的医生。 |
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| fight / battle / struggle against the odds 在极度困难的情况下奋斗 | The rescue workers continued to struggle against the odds to find survivors. 救援人员在极度困难的情况下继续奋斗，寻找生还者。 |
If they had only had one more child, the fact would have passed unnoticed. They would have continued to struggle against economic odds and would have lived in obscurity.
fight / battle / struggle against the elements 与恶劣天气（风、雨等自然力量）作斗争
- The sailors had to battle against the elements to bring the ship safely back to port. 水手们不得不与恶劣的自然天气搏斗，才将船只安全驶回港口。
- Men accustomed to struggling for survival against the elements and Indians were bewildered by politicians, bankers and businessmen, and unhorsed by fences, laws and alien taboos.