一日一词【74】opportunity

opportunity

opportunity表示机会，良机。提到“机会”，可能令人联想到一个英语成语：Opportunity knocks (at the door) only once. 即“时不再来，机不可失”。

Opportunity与occasion和chance近义，但opportunity和occasion和chance更为正式。

Opportunity可与for或of构成短语，for亦可接动词不定式：

His opportunity for experiments were limited in those months.
那几个月他参与实验的机会极为有限。

I’m glad to have the opportunity of talking to you.
我很高兴能有机会与你交谈。

This will be a good opportunity to explain that to her.
这是向她作解释的一个良机。

除了上述用语外，opportunity与occasion一样，常用于以下搭配中：

I’ll take this opportunity/ occasion to do…
我想藉此机会……