chancy

If this method of progress seems chancy and wasteful, it has the merit of its faults.

如果这种进步的方法好像太碰机会,也太浪费了, 它的缺点也不无利益的功绩.

Babies and the chancy life of a musician do not exactly go together.

生儿育女和乐师动荡不定的生活是不合拍的.

I was hoping for a backer, but the project was too chancy.

我希望有支持者, 但这项目风险太大.

A chancy appeal at best; getting that job was definitely fluky; a fluky wind; an iffy proposition.

最多是侥幸的上诉；得到那份工作纯粹是侥幸；变化不定的风；一个不确定的主张。

Invest-ment is becoming a chancy business.

投资正变成一项风险事业。

That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been killed.

那事做起来可真危险, 当时你很有可能会遇害.

"Babies and the chancy life of a musician don't exactly go together. I was getting too old for all the travelling anyway, and the sitting in freezing Orchestra pit."

“生儿育女和乐师动荡不定的生活是不合拍的。反正到处跑我已嫌年龄太大，也不适于老呆在冰冷的乐池里。”

That was a chancy thing to do; you could have been badly injured.

那事做起来可真危险, 当时你很有可能会受重伤.

Still, this form of indirect communication and tacit restraint was slow and chancy.

不过, 这种间接信息和暗自抑制的方式,毕竟还是太慢,而且也不太确实.