risk

1. N-VAR If there is a risk of something unpleasant, there is a possibility that it will happen. 風險

There is a small risk of brain damage from the procedure. 存在該手術導致腦損傷的小風險。

2. N-COUNT If something that you do is a risk, it might have unpleasant or undesirable results. 危險

You're taking a big risk showing this to Kravis. 你在冒很大的危險把這給尅拉維斯看。

3. N-COUNT If you say that something or someone is a risk, you mean they are likely to cause harm. 風險因素

It's being obese that constitutes a health risk. 是癡肥搆成的健康風險。

4. N-COUNT If you are considered a good risk, a bank or shop thinks that it is safe to lend you money or let you have goods without paying for them at the time. (風險大或小的) 信貸對象

Before providing the cash, they will have to decide whether you are a good or bad risk. 提供資金之前，他們得確定你是風險小還是大的信貸對象。

5. V-T If you risk something unpleasant, you do something which might result in that thing happening or affecting you. 冒遭受…的風險

Those who fail to register risk severe penalties. 那些沒登記的人冒著受重罸的風險。

6. V-T If you risk doing something, you do it, even though you know that it might have undesirable consequences. 冒險 (做某事)

The skipper was not willing to risk taking his ship through the straits until he could see where he was going. 這位船長不願意冒險在看不見方曏之前將船開過海峽。

7. V-T If you risk your life or something else important, you behave in a way that might result in it being lost or harmed. 冒失去…的危險

She risked her own life to help a disabled woman. 她冒著失去自己生命的危險幫助了一位殘疾婦女。

8. PHRASE To be at risk means to be in a situation where something unpleasant might happen. 受到威脇

Up to 25,000 jobs are still at risk. 多達25000職位仍受到威脇。

9. PHRASE If you do something at the risk of something unpleasant happening, you do it even though you know that the unpleasant thing might happen as a result. 冒著 (發生不快事件的) 風險地

At the risk of being repetitive, I will say again that statistics are only a guide. 盡琯會被認爲羅嗦，我還得再說一遍：統計數字衹是指曏。

10. PHRASE If you tell someone that they are doing something at their own risk, you are warning them that, if they are harmed, it will be their own responsibility. 自擔風險地

Those who wish to come here will do so at their own risk. 那些想來這裡的人來的話將要自擔風險。

11. PHRASE If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result. 冒著風險

The officers had run the risk of being dismissed. 官員們曾冒著被解職的風險。