Opportunity

(noun.) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; 'the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington'; 'now is your chance'.

整理:溫弗雷德

• Being the most polite of men, he seized the opportunity of assisting the Professor's anatomical amusements on the spot. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• On such occasions an interesting opportunity is offered to study Edison in his intense and constructive moods. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• Quit them all, while there is time and opportunity! 查爾斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• Mr. Chadband, at last seeing his opportunity, makes his accustomed signal and rises with a smoking head, which he dabs with his pocket-handkerchief. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Of course, with a door only on the latch behind me, I lost not my opportunity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• The opportunity frequently occurred for me to defend General Buell against what I believed to be most unjust charges. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• He flattered himself that it was opportunity, not audacity, which had failed him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Here was an opportunity for carrying out his new system with effect, if he chose to improve it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• While a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for casting a vote at a Presidential election occurred. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
• It was the worst course I could have taken, because it gave Pumblechook the opportunity he wanted. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• I have much regretted our having so little opportunity for conversation when we last met. 本杰明·富蘭克林. 富蘭克林自傳.
• That the man had spoken saucily to him when he had the opportunity, was nothing to Mr. Thornton. 伊麗莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
• Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• A little too much, indeed, to have the opportunities opened to me by Mr and Mrs Boffin, appropriated by a mere Secretary and Pa's lodger! 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• My dears, though still young, I have had many opportunities of observing young men. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Surely Mrs. Fisher could no longer charge Miss Bart with neglecting her opportunities! 伊迪絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• This was quite human, very clannish and Corsican, and it helps us to understand just how he valued his position and the opportunities before him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• If you should think our views and opportunities at all likely to coincide, perhaps you will let him know my available position. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• I am afraid we present opportunities to people to do wrong, that never ought to be presented. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together. 簡·奧斯汀. 曼斯菲爾德莊園.
• Equally momentous were the times in Europe, where the attempt to secure opportunities of expansion as well as larger liberty for the individual took quite different form. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• But they indicate the possibilities--greater to-day than ever before--of using active occupations as opportunities for scientific study. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• So I shall have time gradually to make her familiar with my hopes, as opportunities offer. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
• It is impossible to say what violent measures he may take next, unless we make the most of our opportunities while we have them. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. 弗蘭克·劉易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.

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