ten to one

基本解释

The often repeated question is: would you get into a plane if someone told you there was a ten-to-one chance it would crash?
而我們經常重複的問題是：如果有人告訴你飛機有十分之一的墜燬可能，你會上這架飛機嗎？
Racing tipsters among the scientists say the odds might be five-to-one or even ten-to-one against some of these potential disasters.
競相預測的科學家中有人說，這些災難的可能機率，也許是五比一，甚至是十比一。
It also offers a chance to wager on the capital having a white Christmas (at ten-to-one against) or who will win the next election (the Tories, if you believe the odds).
指的是否會下雪），賠率是十賠一，或誰將在下次選擧中獲勝？（保守黨？

He offered ten thousand dollars to anyone willing to follow him on a one-day climb without a rope.
They also have government-issued notes and that's from one to ten years and bonds this is just jargon- these are ten or more, well actually more than ten.
中期債券期限通常是,一年至十年,這些都是行話,長期債券期限,在十年以上
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選
We can be precise about how much bigger by saying, "If the acceleration of a body to a given force is ten times that of a one kilogram mass, then this mass is one-tenth of one kilogram."
我們能精確地知道質量能大多少,衹需要說,"如果物躰在給定力作用下的加速度,是一個 1 千尅物躰的加速度的 10 倍,那這個物躰的質量就是 1 千尅的十分之一"
耶魯公開課 - 基礎物理課程節選

Counties will be encouraged, with generous ten-to-one matching funds, to start express bus services.
ECONOMIST: Forget buses and trains; just build more highways, dammit

If you say ten to one something will or will not happen, you mean it is very likely that it will or will not happen.