ten to one

基本解释

The often repeated question is: would you get into a plane if someone told you there was a ten-to-one chance it would crash?
而我们经常重复的问题是：如果有人告诉你飞机有十分之一的坠毁可能，你会上这架飞机吗？
Racing tipsters among the scientists say the odds might be five-to-one or even ten-to-one against some of these potential disasters.
竞相预测的科学家中有人说，这些灾难的可能机率，也许是五比一，甚至是十比一。
It also offers a chance to wager on the capital having a white Christmas (at ten-to-one against) or who will win the next election (the Tories, if you believe the odds).
指的是否会下雪），赔率是十赔一，或谁将在下次选举中获胜？（保守党？

He offered ten thousand dollars to anyone willing to follow him on a one-day climb without a rope.
They also have government-issued notes and that's from one to ten years and bonds this is just jargon- these are ten or more, well actually more than ten.
中期债券期限通常是,一年至十年,这些都是行话,长期债券期限,在十年以上
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We can be precise about how much bigger by saying, "If the acceleration of a body to a given force is ten times that of a one kilogram mass, then this mass is one-tenth of one kilogram."
我们能精确地知道质量能大多少,只需要说,"如果物体在给定力作用下的加速度,是一个 1 千克物体的加速度的 10 倍,那这个物体的质量就是 1 千克的十分之一"
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Counties will be encouraged, with generous ten-to-one matching funds, to start express bus services.
ECONOMIST: Forget buses and trains; just build more highways, dammit

If you say ten to one something will or will not happen, you mean it is very likely that it will or will not happen.