[kən'tindʒənsi]
contingency
n. 偶然(列联,意外费用,相切)

词形变化:

名词复数:contingencies 形容词:contin-gency

例句与用法:

  1. Not equipped to meet a contingency.
    未应急的没有为应付紧急情况作好准备的
  2. It's impossible to legislate for every contingency.
    为每一偶发事件都立法是不可能的.
  3. The classification of propositions on the basis of whether they assert or deny the possibility, impossibility, contingency, or necessity of their content.
    模态逻辑命题的限制条件,建立在其内容的肯定或否定其可能性,不可能性,偶然性或必然性基础之上

英英解释:

名词 contingency:

  1. a possible event or occurrence or result
  2. 同义词:eventuality, contingence
  3. the state of being contingent on something