contingency
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How to pronounce contingency in British English:
英 [kənˈtɪndʒənsi]
How to pronounce contingency in American English:
美 [kənˈtɪndʒənsi]
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- Noun:
- a possible event or occurrence or result
- the state of being contingent on something
单词词源
- contingency (n.)
- 1560s, "quality of being contingent," from contingent + -cy. Meaning "a chance occurrence" is from 1610s.
双语例句
- 1. Of contingency in respect of the will it is especially important to form a proper estimate .
- 2. The resulting contingency document submitted on march 25 envisioned a hydrogen explosion in unit 1 initiating a succession of meltdowns .
- 3. The treasury played down suggestions that it was making emergency contingency plans to shore up lloyds let alone nationalise the bank .
- 4. Possibility and contingency are the two factors of actuality inward and outward , put as mere forms which constitute the externality of the actual .
- 5. Nor is contingency less visible in the world of mind . The will , as we have already remarked , includes contingency under the shape of option or free choice , but only as a vanishing and abrogated element .