chance upon

1. Your kind hospitality here tonight gives me a chance to convey my deep and long-held respect for the Catholic Church, have special admiration for the Apostle St. Peter, to whom it is said, upon this rock, I will build my church.
   你们今晚的盛情款待让我有机会能够向天主教教堂致以长久以来深深的敬意，我尤其敬仰使徒圣彼得，耶稣对他说，在这块石头上，我将要建成教堂。
2. There is a good chance that on june1st, shortly after the economist goes to press, at least one Chinese company will declare bankruptcy, or have bankruptcy thrust upon it.
   六月一号当《经济学人》报付印之后的片刻，就很可能，至少有一家中国企业宣布破产，或者是被迫破产。
3. Perhaps you might chance upon the dictionary at some old bookstall.
   或许你会在旧书摊上偶然发现这本字典。
4. Only a wider coalition, comprising all countries affected by China's undervalued exchange rate, stands any chance of impressing upon China the consequences of its policy and reminding it of its international responsibilities as a large, systemically important trader.
   只有结成更广泛的联盟，纳入所有受到中国汇率低估影响的国家，才有可能让中国意识到其政策后果，提醒它作为具有系统重要性的贸易大国的国际责任。
5. He gave Sandel no chance to rest or to set himself, but smashed blow in upon blow till the house rose to its feet and the air was filled with an unbroken roar of applause.
   他不让桑德尔有一点休息或者振作起来的机会，只顾一拳接一拳地捣下去，直到全场的观众都站起来，空气中充满着狂吼的彩声。
6. And to_day when by chance I light upon them and see thy signature, I find they have lain scattered in the dust mixed with the memory of joys and sorrows of my trivial days forgotten.
   今天我与它们邂逅，看到了你的印记，发现它们与我那些被遗忘的平凡日子里的欢乐和忧愁的记忆混杂，散落在尘埃中。
7. But there are large numbers of people who are not even aware whether a child is malnourished or not, so in such cases the chance of curing or acting upon to avoid it does not arise at all.
   否是没有长人以至没有知晓孩子是没有是养分没有良，所以邪在那类征象高乱愈的机遇可能贯注的成效底子出有。
8. By chance he stumbles upon a Rune and is exposed to its magical powers.
   一次偶然的机会，他发现了一个卢恩文并且暴露于它的神秘力量之下。
9. This is so true that, if by chance, the socialists have any doubts about the success of these combinations, they will demand that a small portion of mankind be set aside to experiment upon.
   这是如此的真实，如果偶然的，这些社会主义者对这些联合的成功有任何疑问，他们就会要求将一小部分人类隔离开来去进行试验。
10. Nothing tender, nothing sympathetic, had ever had a chance to fasten upon it& no windsown blossom, no familiar softening moss.
    任何温柔和同情，不论它象随风飘扬的花瓣，还是善于攀附的苔藓，都没有机会附着在这上面。
11. However it is non official and will be known to people who chance upon it ( for now).
    然而，它（blog）不是官方的而且将会被碰巧遇到它的人所熟知（对现在来说）。

verb

1. find unexpectedly
   1. the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb
   2. she struck a goldmine
   3. The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake

   Synonym:    fall uponstrikecome uponlight uponcome acrosschance onhappen uponattaindiscover