a million to one

几乎不可能。
常用释义
百万分之一:表示某事发生的概率极低,几乎不可能。

例句

1·The chances are a million to one against being struck by lightning.

遭雷击的可能性是微乎其微的。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·It was a million to one chance, but it had happened.

这只有万分之一的可能性,但还是发生了。

3·The chances of us getting out of here are a million to one.

我们出去的机会是百万分之一。

4·The odds of our soccer team winning the World Cup are about a million to one.

由于队员经常患病,我们获胜的机会 微乎其微。

5·Let me throw a mathematical dilemma at you - there's 500 left, well how come the odds of you winning are a million to one?

让我给你找个数学方面的两难问题——只剩下500个,那你的胜率怎么会是百万分之一?

6·Patrick Jane: Life is a million to one. The universe is one big coincidence. Cosmically improbable coincidences happen all the time. We just don't notice them all.

简:生命就是百万中之一。整个宇宙就是个大巧合。每时每刻都有匪夷所思的巧合发生,只是我们没有注意到罢了。

7·In the story, the Times revealed this juicy nugget: Faceboook M&A guy Vaughan Smith says that when Facebook is deciding what to pay for a startup "engineers are worth half a million to one million.

在报道里,时报杂志透露了这个高回报的珍品:Faceboook的企业并购负责人沃恩·史密斯说,Facebook决定以50万到100万美元的价格来支付一位初创公司的工程师。

8·While most disease-causing mutated are found in humans at a rate of one in a few thousand to one in a few million people, founder mutation can occur at much higher rates.

虽然大多数致病突变在人类中发现的概率为千分之一到百万分之一,但基础突变发生的几率可能高得多。

9·It has grown from a one-man business to a multi-million dollar business with close to $10 million in assets.

它已从一个单人经营的生意发展成资产近千万、业务额达数百万美元的公司。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

10·The main demand of the Indians is for the return of one-and-a-half-million acres of forest to their communities.

印第安人的主要要求是把150万英亩的森林归还给他们的族群。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》