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I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer.

我在抽屉的顶里头发现了这张旧照片。

When the storm subsided, the divers tried their luck for sponges in the local waters and chanced on the wreck.

风雨平静后，潜水夫们在当地水域寻找海棉试试运气，却意外发现了沉船。

There he chanced on a first edition of the handbook.

他在那里意外地发现这本手册的第一版。

Thumbing vaguely through it, he chanced on a chapter called "The Death of Birth" , about the extinction of species.

由于大致地翻看着这本书，他偶然发现了关于物种灭亡而称之为“出生的致死原因”那一章。

I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.

我在图书馆中偶然发现了一本莎士比亚诗集。

Guess who i chanced on while i was in the city today?

你猜，今天我在城里碰到了谁？

I chanced on him last week for the first time in years.

上周是我几年来第一次碰到他。

I was browsIng through a second-hand book store when I chanced on(upon)thIs old edItIon

我在一家旧书店里随意浏览，碰巧看到这种旧版本。