likelihood 英 [ˈlaɪklihʊd]   美 [ˈlaɪkliˌhʊd]

likelihood

likelihood  英 [ˈlaɪklihʊd] 美 [ˈlaɪkliˌhʊd]

n. 可能性,可能 

名词复数:likelihoods 

When you choose your partners, you increase the likelihood of success. 当你选择合适的合作伙伴,增加成功的可能性。
I am not as sold as many of my interlocutors on the likelihood of high inflation. 我并不像我对话者中的许多那样热衷于高度通货膨胀的可能性。

  • The likelihood of something means the odds that it will happen, or how likely a particular outcome is. Your likelihood of winning the lottery is pretty slim.
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  • n. 可能性,可能
  • 1. When you choose your partners, you increase the likelihood of success.

    当你选择合适的合作伙伴,增加成功的可能性。

  • 2. I am not as sold as many of my interlocutors on the likelihood of high inflation.

    我并不像我对话者中的许多那样热衷于高度通货膨胀的可能性。

  • 3. But you can say whether these events are consistent with predictions, or that their likelihood rises or falls in a warming world.

    但是你可以说这些事件与预测是否相一致或者其在日益变暖的世界里再次出现的可能性。

  • likelihood (n.) late 14c., "resemblance, similarity," from likely + -hood. Meaning "probability, state of being like or probable" is from mid-15c.
like·li·hood / ˈlaɪklihʊd ; NAmE ˈlaɪklihʊd / noun [uncountable ,  singular ] the chance of sth happening; how likely sth is to happen 可能;可能性 SYN probability There is very little likelihood of that happening. 几乎没有发生那种事情的可能。 In all likelihood (= very probably)the meeting will be cancelled. 这次会议十有八九要被取消。 The likelihood isthat (= it is likely that)unemployment figures will continue to fall. 很有可能失业人数会继续下降。 likelihood likelihoods like·li·hood / ˈlaɪklihʊd ; NAmE ˈlaɪklihʊd /
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