ODDS

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Traducere în limba română

odds substantiv pl. (folosit mai ales ca sg.)

1. inegalitate; deosebire, diferenţă;

with heavy odds against them a) împotriva unor forţe mult superioare; b) în condiţii foarte nefavorabile;

to make odds even a aplana divergenţele, a înlătura deosebirile/ dificultăţile;

by long odds cu mult, hotărât, sigur, categoric, absolut;

it is / it makes no odds nu este o deosebire importantă; nu este esential; n-are importanţă;

what's the odds? în ce constă deosebirea?

2. divergenţă, dezacord;

to be at odds with fate a lupta împotriva soartei;

to set at odds a învrăjbi, a băga zâzanie între.

3. avantaj, superioritate;

the odds are in our favour avantajul este în favoarea noastră;

to face fearful odds a înfrunta forţe mult superioare;

to give odds (sport) a da avantaj;

to have fought against longer odds a fi luptat împotriva unor greutăţi mai mari.

4. şanse, sorţi de izbândă; probabilitate;

the odds are / it is odds that he will do it mai mult decât probabil că o va face;

short odds şanse aproape egale.

◊ to shout the odds a se făli, a se lăuda.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Right you were, sir,” replied Silver; “and precious little odds which, to you and me.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

An odds ratio of one means that both groups had the same odds of exposure and, therefore, the exposure probably does not increase the risk of cancer.

(Odds ratio, NCI Dictionary)

It’s better to give odds in weight than in years.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seemed the breath of his nostrils, this carrying his life in his hands and struggling for it against tremendous odds.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The odds are that this plateau is of no great size, and we shall travel round it until we either find an easy way up it, or come back to the point from which we started.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the best players we have, by the by; and we had a little touch together, though I was almost afraid of him at first: the odds were five to four against me; and, if I had not made one of the cleanest strokes that perhaps ever was made in this world—I took his ball exactly—but I could not make you understand it without a table; however, I did beat him.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

What is the meaning of the long odds against your man?

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An odds ratio of greater than one means that the exposure may increase the risk of cancer, and an odds ratio of less than one means that the exposure may reduce the risk of cancer.

(Odds ratio, NCI Dictionary)

“Come, that's better. Five against three leaves us four to nine. That's better odds than we had at starting. We were seven to nineteen then, or thought we were, and that's as bad to bear.” *

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was long odds on Wilson when last I heard.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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