wild card
英 [ˈwaɪld kɑːd]
美 [ˈwaɪld kɑːrd]
n. (由持牌人自由决定牌值的)百搭派,变牌; “百搭”式参赛,“百搭”式参赛选手,“外卡”参赛,“外卡”选手(指没有正常参赛资格而参赛); 通配符
牛津词典
noun
- (由持牌人自由决定牌值的)百搭派,变牌
a card that has no value of its own and takes the value of any card that the player chooses - “百搭”式参赛,“百搭”式参赛选手,“外卡”参赛,“外卡”选手(指没有正常参赛资格而参赛)
an opportunity for sb to play in a competition when they have not qualified in the usual way; a player who enters a competition in this way - 通配符
a symbol that has no meaning of its own and can represent any letter or number - 难以预测的人(或事物);未知因素;未知数
a person or thing whose behaviour or effect is difficult to predict
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 未知数;未知因素
If you refer to someone or something as awild cardin a particular situation, you mean that they cause uncertainty because you do not know how they will behave.- The wild card in the picture is Eastern Europe.
整个局势中的变数是东欧。
- The wild card in the picture is Eastern Europe.
- N-COUNT (给予没有正常参赛资格的选手准其参加比赛的)“外卡”;“外卡”选手
If a sports player is given awild cardfor a particular competition, they are allowed to play in it, although they have not qualified for it in the usual way. You can also usewild cardto refer to a player who enters a competition in this way.- Andre Agassi accepted a wild card to play in the Stockholm Open.
安德烈·阿加西持外卡参加了斯德哥尔摩公开赛。
- Andre Agassi accepted a wild card to play in the Stockholm Open.
- (用于代替任何字符或字符串的)通配符
Awildcardis a symbol such as * or ? which is used in some computing commands or searches in order to represent any character or range of characters.
英英释义
noun
- a playing card whose value can be determined by the person who holds it
- an unpredictable factor
- the weather was a wild card
双语例句
- The variable will get updated with the Combo Box value ( either with the largest city name when a specific city is selected or with the% wild card when All Cities is selected).
此变量将会使用组合框的值进行更新(或者是当选定一个特定城市时用最大城市的名字,或者是当所有城市被选择时用%通配符)。 - That to me is a wild card for 2010, especially as you move toward the mid-term elections.
在我看来,这给2010年带来了不确定因素,特别是在中期选举临近之时。 - Another wild card for the dollar will be trends in global capital flows.
影响美元的另一个可能因素将是全球资本流动的趋势。 - One wild card is the impact of the forthcoming midterm elections.
即将到来的中期选举的影响也是一个变数。 - You are allowed to use an empty string or NULL in the first two parameters to perform a wild card() search.
前两个参数可以使用空字符串或NULL,以执行通配符()搜索。 - A major wild card is foreign exchange rates, which have been working against Japanese producers for months.
一个重大的未知因素是汇率,数月以来,汇率因素一直不利于日本汽车厂商。 - You can either list each possible URL pattern, or use the/ wild card registration as shown below.
您可以列出每个可能的URL模式,或者使用/通配符注册,如下所示。 - Another wild card is whether financial firms will bend to public and political pressure to rein in pay.
另外一个不确定因素是,金融企业是否会向公众和政治压力低头而限薪。 - The advertisement is still a wild card.
这个广告的成功与否还是个未知数。 - The delete command does not accept wild card (*) characters.
delete命令不接受通配符。