long odds

基本解釋

Given these long odds—even as Sariska’s new apex predator sniffs out its range—there are some who think the tiger’s survival too unlikely to waste time and money on.
考慮到這些發(fā)生概率很小的事情（甚至薩裡斯卡國(guó)家公園內(nèi)新的“至高無(wú)上”的肉食動(dòng)物也在搜尋其活動(dòng)範(fàn)圍），有些人認(rèn)爲(wèi)老虎是不可能存活的，沒(méi)有必要將時(shí)間與金錢(qián)耗費(fèi)在他們身上。
He knows what a revolution looks like, he knows the long odds against any revolution actually coming to fruition, and he knows when it's worth trying anyway, despite the long odds.
他知曉一場(chǎng)變革應(yīng)該是怎樣的，也預(yù)見(jiàn)到那些最初不利於變革的渺茫因素，到最後亦有可能成爲(wèi)現(xiàn)實(shí)，他知道什麼是值得嘗試的時(shí)機(jī)，即使成功機(jī)會(huì)的很小，依然要去做。
He was by long odds the most eligible young man in town.
他無(wú)論在哪一方麪都是鎮(zhèn)上最郃格的年輕人。

"In countries that are incubators of extremism like Yemen, or are ravaged by poverty and natural disasters like Haiti, the odds are long,".

Wambugu overcame long odds even to get the education she needed for this venture.
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But now that Coburn has declared defeat, the long odds against serious debt reduction have gotten longer.
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