| 词汇 | jeopardy |
| 词源 | jeopardy. Jeu parti was originally a French chess term mean- ing “a divided play or game.” It thus came to mean “an uncer- tain chance, uncertainty” and entered English in this sense, spelled jeuparti, early in the 13th century. By the end of that century it had attained its present meaning of “risk of loss; peril, danger,” but its spelling is not recorded as jeopardy until 1597. |
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