chance
French → English
(Abstract) Luck: success or failure brought by luck rather than one's own actions
La chance de sauter ensemble sur une mine n'encourageait pas la sincérité.
(English) The luck of blowing up together on a mine did not encourage sincerity.
Il y avait dix chances contre une qu’il s’agît d’un vol aérien réussi.
(English) There were ten chances to one that it was a successful flight.
(Mathematics) Odds: the mathematical probability of a specific outcome
Les chances de valider son billet de train du premier coup sont de 1 sur 200 000.
(English) The odds of validating your train ticket on the first try are 1 in 200,000.
La personne qui achète un billet a plus de chances de mourir que de gagner.
(English) A person who buys a ticket has better odds of dying than of winning.
Entry ID: fr:en:chance · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary