中国人常说，人生不如意之事“十之八九”，我们要学会平常心面对生活。“十之八九”，亦作“十有八九”，经常用作修饰的成分，字面意思是“nine times out of ten”，比喻绝大多数，有极大的可能性（very likely），与英文短语“ten to one”意思相同，表示“it is very likely that...; very probably”。
- 他们十有八九会输。
Ten to one they'll lose. - 没有人确切地知道他们将如何处理这些销售问题，但十有八九是由员工来承担代价。
No one knows for sure how they're going to deal with these sales issues, but ten to one it's the employees who have to suffer the cost.
