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.
  1. The wild card in the picture is Eastern Europe.
     整个局势中的变数是东欧。
• 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.
  1. 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。
• (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
  1. the weather was a wild card

双语例句

• The advertisement is still a wild card.
  这个广告的成功与否还是个未知数。
• A wild card for the incoming administration will be the Arab-Israeli conflict, said Mideast analysts.
  关注中东局势的分析人士称，美国下一届政府将面临的一个不确定因素是阿以冲突。
• One wild card is to propose to her in front of the whole class.
  当着全班的面向她求婚，这会是最厉害的一招。
• Parameter expansion also includes some pattern matching capabilities with the same wild card capabilities as used in filename expansion or globbing.
  参数扩展还包括了一些模式匹配功能，该功能带有在文件名扩展或globbing中使用的通配符功能。
• Irish farmers are a wild card.
  爱尔兰的农场主恐怕是最大的变数。
• 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。
• The wild card is how a Latvian crisis would affect the greater Central and Eastern European region.
  关键问题是这场危机如何会对地域更广的中东欧地区产生影响。
• Fill the wild card property ( filename wildcard. txt, for example; we use. xml for this case) in the "Output" page.
  在Output页面中填充通配符属性（例如文件名wildcard.txt；对于这个例子，我们使用.xml）。
• 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。
• She's our maverick, our wild card.
  她是我们的独行侠，我们的王牌。