as Charlie Parker's followers called him. Parker knew those performances might be his last chance to re-claim the success he had gained only a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

You're going to get a chance to explore them, and you'll see not only are there the standard numerics for strings, there are things like length or plus or other things you can do with them.

以后你们还会学到更多，你会学到字符串,不仅仅能运用标准数值运算，你还可以对他们求长度,或者加上其他的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

He only wanted a chance to be useful.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

But the only bad thing about it - I don't get a chance to really enjoy the Con.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

If you did not have a ticketed bleacher seat, you were out of luck, and out of perhaps your only chance for an Olympic experience.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16