Risk

(noun.) a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; 'he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime'; 'there was a danger he would do the wrong thing'.

(noun.) the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent.

(noun.) the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred.

(verb.) expose to a chance of loss or damage; 'We risked losing a lot of money in this venture'; 'Why risk your life?'; 'She laid her job on the line when she told the boss that he was wrong'.

整理:薇尔玛

• He had no suspicion that they ran any risk of being houseless until morning; had no idea of the truth until long, long afterwards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Damme, I'll risk it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I was just thinking--But will you run the risk of dinner? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But how destroy them so effectually that there should be no second risk of their falling in such hands? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Judge from this, what motives he had to run the risk which he actually ran. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Selden continued with a smile: You see no such scruples restrained me; but then I haven't as much to risk if I incur your displeasure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I was not obliged to bring their unhallowed scrawls, and run the risk of being bewitched, as more folks than one told me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• What Mr Harmon risks, is quite another pair of shoes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I am braver than I was, because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• If she were ill-used, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I knew he was extravagant, but I did not think that he would be so mean as to hang his risks on his oldest friend, who could the least afford to lose. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Don't offend any one and make useless risks. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Not everyone may feel that to push out into the untried, and take risks for big prizes, is worth while. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You observe he never risks saying Roylands, but always addresses you as Mr Maurice—Maurice is of course a Greek name. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• But having risked discovery by venturing here at all, I should have been glad to track some part of the way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He had risked the last of his capital on the purchase of these frames and shears which to-night had been expected. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• One system embraced men who risked life for a principle, and often men of social standing, competence, or wealth and independence of character. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Had I had the means, I would have risked all, have torn her by force from the murderer's den, and trusted to the healing balm of reason and affection. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In his desire to repair his first losses, my father risked double stakes, and thus incurred a debt of honour he was wholly unable to pay. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I have risked enough already for your sake. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I don't think even the pious Hellenes would have risked their lives in building a temple under the very nose of Vulcan in full work. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• They were near to extermination that once and they will not venture risking it again. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It wouldn't be worth risking getting over on my belly yet, not as close as that thing was to the surface, and I can see better this way. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She felt that she had been risking her friend's happiness on most insufficient grounds. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The first represented the decision-compelling spirit, the second the spirit of risking little to gain a little. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

整理:胡安妮塔