(historical) A type of game played with dice. [from 14th c.] || Chance. [from 16th c.] || The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. [from 16th c.] || An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. [from 19th c.] || (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. || (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player’s ball (losing hazard). || (过时的,旧时用法) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
“A high incidence of brush fires has raised concerns about the potential hazard that could result from exposed terrain affected by heat.”
“In these poems, nothing is left to hazard or given for mere poetic effect.”
adverb
1.
‘He envisaged himself wobbling on the edge of an invisible cliff, leaning hazardously this way and that.’
‘The books were stacked hazardously in my locker, threatening to topple onto me.’
词性:adjective
‘He envisaged himself wobbling on the edge of an invisible cliff, leaning hazardously this way and that.’
