| 词汇 | crapshoot |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | crapshoot noun[ Cusually singular ] USinformal(alsocrap shoot, crap-shoot)uk /ˈkræp.ʃuːt/ us /ˈkræp.ʃuːt/ something whose result could be good or bad but is impossible to predict or control, because so much chance is involved: Almost every aspect of the music business is a crapshoot. It's hard to accept that life can be a crapshoot, where bad things happen to good people for no reason. Starting up a new magazine is a crap shoot at the best of times. Predicting the outcome of the tournament is pretty much a crap-shoot. Related word crapsUS From an investment point of view it's a crapshoot. For too long, trying to get across town using public transport has been a crapshoot for people with disabilities. "Movies are much bigger crapshoots than TV," he says. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness coincidence even money fluke fluky fortuitous luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom non-purposive randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition stumble into something |
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