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

• A major wild card is foreign exchange rates, which have been working against Japanese producers for months.
  一个重大的未知因素是汇率，数月以来，汇率因素一直不利于日本汽车厂商。
• Choose Wildcard extension to ignore all files with the current file's extension, or choose Custom pattern to add your own wild card to the ignore list.
  选择Wildcardextension忽略具有当前文件扩展名的所有文件，或选择Custompattern在忽略列表中添加您自己的通配符。
• 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。
• The other wild card is social media.
  另一个因素则是社交媒体。
• And I get a wild card once a month.
  我每月还能任意指定一次约会吧。
• 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。
• The search will run as if a wild card is appended to the search term.
  搜索将会按照如同对搜索条件增加了一个通配符一样运行。
• The wild card for the Fed is labour market recovery and wage inflation.
  美联储面临的不确定因素是劳动力市场复苏和工资上涨。
• You forgot the wild card.
  你忘了这张王牌了。