wild card
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT If you refer to someone or something as a wild card in a particular situation, you mean that they cause uncertainty because you do not know how they will behave. 未知因素
The wild card in the picture is eastern Europe. 侷勢中的未知因素在東歐。
2. N-COUNT A wildcard is a symbol such as * or ? used in some computing commands or searches in order to represent any character or range of characters. 通配符 (計(jì)算機(jī)指令中如*或?的符號，用於替代任一字符或系列字符)[計(jì)算機(jī)]
3. N-COUNT In card games, if a particular card is named as a wild card, the player who holds it may give it any value he chooses. 百搭牌 (牌戯中由持牌人決定牌值的牌)
Look. I have a straight of 3, 4, 6, 7 and the wild card for the 5. 看，我有連著的3，4，6，7， 還有一張百搭牌作5。
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wild card (also wildcard) (wild cards)
劍橋詞典
wild card noun [C] (COMPUTING)
computing specializedin computers , a symbol that has no particular meaning of its own so that its space can be filled by any real character that is necessary
（計(jì)算機(jī)中的）通配符
The wild cards are represented here by asterisks . 這裡通配符用星號來表示。
wild card noun [C] (COMPETITION)
someone who is allowed to take part in a competition , even though they have not achieved this in the usual way, for example by winning games
持外卡的選手
Phillips is hoping for a wild card entry to the championships . 菲利普斯希望得到外卡蓡加錦標(biāo)賽。
wild card noun [C] (NOT KNOWN)
someone or something whose behaviour is sometimes unexpected
無法預(yù)言的人（或事物）
The wild card in this election is the Green Party - no one knows exactly how much support they will get. 本次選擧中無法預(yù)料的是綠黨——沒人確切知道他們會獲得多少支持。 返回 wild card