Here we have a record of Zarathustra's avowal of optimism, as also the important statement concerning "Chance" or "Accident" (verse 27). Those who are familiar with Nietzsche's philosophy will not require to be told what an important role his doctrine of chance plays in his teaching. The Giant Chance has hitherto played with the puppet "man,"--this is the fact he cannot contemplate with equanimity. Man shall now exploit chance, he says again and again, and make it fall on its knees before him! (See verse 33 in "On the Olive Mount", and verses 9-10 in "The Bedwarfing Virtue").英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Lord Aberdare, its first Chancellor, lived to see it in thorough working order. On Lord Aberdare's death, the Prince of Wales was elected Chancellor in 1896; and when he ascended the throne in 1901, the present Prince of Wales became Chancellor.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Again that other face--pale, dark-eyed, beautiful still! And there stirred far down within him the ghost of warmth, as from sparks lingering beneath a mound of flaky ash. And Fleur infatuated with her boy! Queer chance! Yet, was there such a thing as chance? A man went down a street, a brick fell on his head. that was chance, no doubt. But this!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
"And please give me a chance! You'll spoil it all if you stay!"
"I'm going to stay right here," was his grim response. She realized there was no changing him. She glimpsed a closet door behind him, and caught at the chance of saving at least a fragment of her drama. "Stay, then but, Larry, please give me a chance to do what I want to do! Please!" By this time she had dragged him across the room and had started to unlock the closet. "Just wait in here--and keep quiet! Please!"
He took the key from her fumbling hands, unlocked the door, and slipped the key into his pocket.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
I entirely agree with what you say about "chance," except in relation to the variations of organic beings having been designed; and I imagine that Mr. Graham must have used "chance" in relation only to purpose in the origination of species. This is the only way I have used the word chance, as I have attempted to explain in the last two pages of my "Variation under Domestication."英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Ayrton had heard that passionate appeal for another chance upon more than one previous occasion. He had heard the husband who had tortured his wife to death make a passionate appeal to God to give him another chance. He knew that God had never given him another chance with the same wife; but God had given him another wife in the course of time--a wife who was not made on the spiritual lines of those who die by torture; a wife who was able to formulate a list of her own rights, and the rights of her sisters, and who possessed a Will.英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
Because I was talking to those people over there, and there's a chance-- a slight chance, but a chance--美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
But if I thought I had no chance with you, no chance at all, well, there'd be nothing to stop me from telling.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
You're hiding something, And I'm gonna pull it out of you, and when that happens, there is a chance-- the remotest, slimmest wisp of a chance-- that you might actually become an artist.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》