C2 （用于询问或礼貌地请求）也许，可能
used to ask a question or request in a polite way
Are you Hungarian, by any chance? 你或许是匈牙利人？
Could you lend me a couple of pounds, by any chance? 你能不能借我几英镑？
You wouldn't, by any chance, have a calculator on you, would you? 你或许没带计算器吧，是不是？
I wondered if there might, by any chance, still be any tickets left?
Could you get me the latest sales figures, by any chance?
Your name isn't Walton by any chance, is it?
See also: chance noun (LUCK)