英 [ɒdz] 美 [ɑːdz]
n. （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
odds /ɒdz/ CET4 TEM8
复数型名词 You refer to how likely something is to happen as the odds that it will happen. 可能性
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？
复数型名词 In betting, odds are expressions with numbers such as "10 to 1" and "7 to 2" that show how likely something is thought to be, for example, how likely a particular horse is to lose or win a race. (赌博中的) 赔率
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。
习语 If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or arguing with each other. (与某人) 不合
He was at odds with the boss.
他与老板不合。
习语 If you say that the odds are against something or someone, you mean that they are unlikely to succeed. (某人、某事物) 不大可能成功
He reckons the odds are against the plan going ahead.
他认为该计划不太可能进行下去。
习语 If something happens against all odds, it happens or succeeds although it seemed impossible or very unlikely. 貌似不可能 (却发生或成功)
...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。
习语 If you say that the odds are in someone's favour, you mean that they are likely to succeed in what they are doing. (某人) 可能会成功
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。
the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another
he offered odds of two to one
同义词： betting odds
不平等
机率
海洋学数位资料系统 (oceanographic digital data system)
优势
参数解释（对变量的评价） 发生比(odds)： ..
要想有大的胜算(Odds)即好的险益比，玩弄别人感情，其实是自己情感受过伤害。就必需顺势而为。
二条赔率(Odds)：实赔、虚赔。万事俱备，花自然会开——努力就行了，花什么时候开由老天爷安排。
可能性(the odds), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
几率；胜算；不平等；差别
What were the odds against?
赔率是多少？
He was at odds with the boss.
他与老板不合。
It's odds-on that he'll be late.
他多半要迟到。
But Specter said he found himself increasingly at odds with a Republican Party that has moved to the right.
VOA : standard.2009.04.28
So, when in doubt, if you're having some weird character issue, odds are you need to escape it in some way.
如果你有拿不准的字符,可能就要用到转义字符了。
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It's just that other meanings are available, and since they're not on the same page, those two other meanings coexist painfully and irreducibly at odds, right?
它只是说其它意思也有可能，由于它们不是在同一水平线上，这两种其它意思,痛苦地共存着，同时又不可削减地矛盾着，对吧？
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The declaration puts the 30 AU states of the International Criminal Court at odds with the body's founding principles.
VOA : standard.2009.07.06
"In countries that are incubators of extremism like Yemen, or are ravaged by poverty and natural disasters like Haiti, the odds are long,".
VOA : standard.2010.01.06
As long as you are speculating, though, you might as well increase your odds.
Wambugu overcame long odds even to get the education she needed for this venture.
Short of issuing subpoenas to detect accounting fraud, how can you improve your odds as an investor?