a long shot
n.
很少机会成功的尝试；
双语例句
Looking for her in the library was a long shot; I had no idea where she was.
在图书馆中想找到她是不大可能成功的尝试，我不知道她在哪儿。
John was a long shot for mayor.
约翰竞选市长，当选希望很小。
It's a long shot, but I should say she's about forty.
这不好猜，但我猜她大约是四十岁左右。
It's a long shot but I think John must have stolen the bike.
这只是一种猜测，但我认为一定是约翰偷了自行车。
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1. It's a long shot, but it just might work.
没有什么把握，但也许行得通。
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2. The deal was a long shot, but Bagley had little to lose.
这宗交易不太可能成功，但巴格莱没什么可损失的。
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3. The missile-reduction treaty makes sweeping cuts, but the arms race isn't over by a long shot.
削减导弹条约引起大范围的裁减，但是军备竞赛根本没有结束。
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4. It's a long shot but worth exploring - and it's feasible only if Colonel Qaddafi and his friends believe that otherwise they are going down.
虽然机会很渺茫，但是值得探索，它的可行性在于如果卡扎菲和他的支持者相信除非如此否则他们将下台。
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5. That a theory of everything might emerge from geometry would be neat, but it is a long shot.
从几何引出的大统一理论应该是整洁漂亮的，但是路还长得很。
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6. 'it doesn't compete in a foreign language and I think it's a long shot. It's not our top priority, but we probably will seek partners in other countries to develop our product,' he said.
他说，新浪微博在外语方面没有竞争力，我认为要实现这一目标需要付出长久的努力，它不是我们的当务之急，但我们可能会在其他国家寻找合作伙伴来开发我们的产品。
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7. It is a long shot, but by 2050 wheat plants could be making their own fertiliser, as well as having acquired desirable genetic characteristics from other plants and being larger and more productive.
这是一个很长远的目标，不过到2050年小麦可以达到自己合成肥料，除此之外它们还可以从其他植物中不断引入所需要的基因特征而变得产量更高。
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8. Yet the difficulty of achieving international agreement on such complex territory suggests that this is very much a long shot.
不过，在这类复杂领域达成国际协议的难度预示着，这种尝试不太可能会成功。
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9. It's even conceivable, though clearly a long shot, that some form of microscopic life already exists on this frigid moon.
可以想象，尽管这显然是一个不太会成功的尝试，一些微观的生命形态仍然会存在于这个寒冷的卫星之中。
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10. So gun-lovers will watch Mr Obama's nominee nervously, especially if he picks Harold Hongju Koh, a long-shot candidate who once gave a speech titled: “A world drowning in guns”.
因此，枪支爱好者将会神经兮兮地盯着奥巴马的候选人，特别如果是他选了当选希望很少的高洪柱。 高洪柱发表以下言论：“世界将被枪支淹死。”
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11. Much to the disappointment of Harry Potter fans, cloaking a human-sized object at visible wavelengths seems like a long shot.
令哈利·波特迷十分失望的是，使一个人身大小的物体在可见光波段隐身，貌似只是碰碰运气。
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12. He is seen as a long shot.
他一直都被认为是一个热门人选。
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13. However, this is not the only workout you can do - not by a long shot.
然而，短期内，这并不是你唯一可以做的练习。
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14. Not by a long shot, says Beverly Potter, Ph.D., lecturer, consultant and author of Finding a Path with a Heart: How to Go from Burnout to Bliss.
一点也不！博士、讲师、顾问及《找到一条心径：如何从倦怠到欣喜》一书的作者贝弗利·波特说道。
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15. Given the strong support the minimum wage has gotten from the Supreme Court, it may seem like a long shot.
鉴于最低工资法已经获得了最高法院的支持，他们要想成功并不容易。
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16. This stance isn't relaxed, not by a long shot.
这个立场并不轻松，一点也不轻松。
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17. It is always a long shot when an untrained opposition goes against a ruthless dictator with a well-equipped army. But tactical conflicts and the lack of clear goals are making it even harder.
乌合的反对派对抗训练有素、装备精良的暴君，本来就鲜有胜算，战术上的争执不下以及目标不明更使得雪上加霜。
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18. These rules, though, are not the be-all, end-all of SQL performance tuning-not by a long shot.
但是，这些规则并不是SQL性能调优的最终和最高目标-决不是。
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19. Now, I know we've had quite a few strange art mediums here at Oddity Central, from garbage to chewing gum, but excrement has to be the weirdest one yet, by a long shot.
在我们网站的有很多奇怪的艺术新闻，从垃圾到嚼过的口香糖什么都有，但是大便还是最诡异最雷人的。
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20. Even then, moving the bill through the Senate was always going to be a long shot, and without Mr Graham's support is probably an impossibility.
即使如此，参院通过该议案也将是长期过程，若无格雷厄姆支持几无可能。
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21. At the time, the move was a long shot.
那时候，这一举动很少成功。
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22. Good Lord, Leanna, I wasn't ready to marry and he wasn't the type I'd have wanted to marry by a long shot.
天哪，利安娜，我不准备结婚，他绝不是我一直想嫁的类型。
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23. The company he inherited was still profitable - it made $87m profits on sales of $5.1bn in 2007 - but generating the kind of revenues needed to service such a huge debt was a long shot.
他接手企业时，企业还有是盈利的——其2007年销售利润达8千7百万美元，收入51亿——但是收益却需要用于极其宠大的债务补给实难成功。
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24. "We're not the first people to study this by a long shot," Metzger says. "All we've done is developed a new technique that seems to be very useful and very fast."
“我们并非是做这样尝试的第一人，我们所做的就是研发一种很有用而且快捷的新技术”Metzger说到。
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25. His mother had an idea. It was a long shot.
他的母亲有了个主意。那是一次希望渺茫的尝试。
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26. But his doctors admit it's a long shot.
然而他的医生承认这是强弩之末。
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27. Reaching our sales goal this quarter is a long shot because of the economy.
由于经济原因，本季度我们不太可能能完成销售目标。
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28. I would imagine it's a long shot.
我猜想这会是个很大的赌注。
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29. I would imagine it's a long shot.
我猜想这会是个很大的赌注。
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