It is filled with hundreds of small red cubes for playing games of chance.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Not that everyone gambles but there will be -you go to any human society and ask about it and there will be some game of chance that they play at the -that influences their thinking.

这不是说所有人都会去赌博,当你随便去做个社会调查,在当地都会有类似赌博的游戏,这会影响人们决策

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And I had done well, so I knew that I had a good chance of getting into graduate school,

我的表现也不错，所以，我知道我有很大的机会被研究生院录取，

图书馆经常人很多 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Crime was punished, or innocence was decided, by the result of chance.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

It's not a valid experiment if it has no chance of showing that my hypothesis is flawed.

如果根本没可能证明我的假设,是有瑕疵的，那么这个试验。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They think that a person who gets up early in the morning for work has the best chance of success.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

So in a sense the fact that there's a more critical screen, there's more of a careful thought process, the fact that customers are pickier with their money today, all of that really is a chance to make people better.

所以实际上，如果环境更为挑剔，人们的构思过程就会更为严谨细致，现在的消费者花每一分钱都精打细算，这其中产生的是让人们生活的更好的商机。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

So if I worry about energy I have a pretty good chance of extracting out these heat capacities, right, and I don't have to worry about exactly which path and I can really mix things up.

而能量与热容有密切的关系,从能量就可以就算出这两个热容，我不需要考虑到底是哪一条路径,可以随意计算。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Teaching at Howard gave Duncan the chance to share his knowledge of classical European music with a mainly black student population.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

You might know already that you've got a 50 percent chance of having it, but you don't know whether you yourself have it.

你可能已经知道了,自己有50%的机会获得这种基因，但你不知道你有没有。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And when the anchorman was not in front of the camera, there was a good chance he was on his boat.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The chance to talk to patients, and to staff, really at all levels, is one of the most important things that i do.

与病人，和各级员工交谈，是我的重要工作之一。

普林斯顿公开课 - 领导能力简介课程节选

But Mr.Gustafson sees a better chance for the efforts to increase the popularity of the orange sweet potato in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

But I think for anybody who wants to think a little bit out of box, what counts is the chance to try something, and I guess that's what I'm most grateful for in my career.

但我觉得只要你想要,打破陈规思考问题，你最好能尝试做一些事情,所以我在事业中最为感恩的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

He thought all Americans should have an equal chance at the best colleges, not just children of wealthy families.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

You have a chance of being way out here with a fat-tailed distribution.

很有可能在,长尾分布的这里

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The event,on July sixteenth, was a rare chance for planetary scientists to share with the public the mysteries of Mars.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

For those of you don't know what that is it's simply an instrument that counts radioactive particles in the air, and MIT now that you're at MIT, you'll all have a chance to see one first hand if you're ever in any of the labs, especially in the chemistry or bio labs.

不知道它是什么,它就是一个简单的,计算在空气中放射粒子数目的仪器,你们现在来了，如果你们在实验室里工作的话,尤其是化学和生物实验室，你们有很多机会亲手用到它。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Until that night, black singers of classical music had almost no chance of performing in major American opera houses and theaters.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

For the first time"--this was, of course, the French aristocrat de Tocqueville "For the first time we have had the chance to examine the effect that slavery produces on a society.

第一次",这位托克维尔即是,法国的那位贵族德·托克维尔,"第一次我们有机会仔细观察,奴隶制对一个社会造成的影响

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

People should tie a bright-colored object to the top of their car to increase the chance of rescue.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

And the idea here is that the number 4 represents 40% chance of scoring if you shoot the ball to the left of the goal and the goal keeper dives to the left.

在这里表示进球概率是40%,前提是你从左路射门,而门将也扑向左路

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Congressman James Blaine seemed to have the best chance of winning the Republican presidential nomination in eighteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

and then invest it in a company or an idea that has a very high chance of not working.

然后投资一家公司，或者等待一个良好的机会。

要想成为事业家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Douglas believed that, of the other candidates, Abraham Lincoln had the best chance of winning the presidential election.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

When you open it, you will see all of the children's poetry. And it gave them a chance to share their work.

打开它，你就能看到孩子们写的诗,他们也因此能互相分享作品。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

But by the end of the movie, she has a chance to let her acting skills shine and she becomes a star.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

So, if any of you doesn't want to be, by chance, seen on the Internet, then sit out of range of the camera.

如果你们不想要，意外地，出现在网上的话，那么就坐在摄像机拍摄的范围外。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

The rest of human action, the rest of statecraft, will be really left to chance, luck, contingency, circumstances.

其余的行为，其余的施政方针，只能听命于,机会，运气，意外事件和环境了。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选