| 词源 |
hazard. Hazard has come to mean “random chance,” or “an unavoidable danger or risk, or something causing danger, peril or risk.” But the word originally meant a dice game, a usage it still has today. This is clearly seen in the word’s ancient ances- tor, the Arabic al, “the,” and zahr, “die.” Because the cast of the dice is uncertain or risky, the word came into Spanish as azar, “an unexpected accident,” this becoming the French hasard, which became the English hazard. |