| 词汇 | example_english_gamble |
| 释义 | Examples of gambleThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The second category of poor were those whose deviant nature was expressed both in appeareance (ruinous and presumptuous clothing) and behaviour (gambling, squandering, fornication). Subjects were asked to evaluate pairs of gambles of comparable expected value. The same considerations apply when the agent is asked for the highest price at which she would buy the gambles. Cricket-fighting is a sport in which two male crickets are made to engage in a duel, and it often involves gambling. Writing an explicit description of the expected utility as a function of gambles is overly complicated and relies on the order of task completions. In a sense, all of our research and theoretical commitments are gambles, investments we hope will pay off epistemologically. A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. There is some evidence that the attribute that is traded off, or gambled with, becomes salient; that is, people give more importance to this attribute. Throughout this note, we have assumed that gambling does not directly give rise to utility. I think gambling is a type of compulsive behaviour. In the context of such gambles, it seems unlikely that subjects would ignore the difference between 14 and eight. Of course, when two gambles have the same expected payoff, then an expected payoff maximising agent might use another criterion as a tie breaker. Responses to standard gambles: are preferences 'well constructed'? Notable among these was gambling, whose flexibility and familiarity accommodated many of the constraints of clandestine prison activities. The term was used in gambling argot to refer to a gambler. The government gambled that outcries from vested interests would neutralize each other and that unions would be divided and powerless. Reversals of preference between bids and choices in gambling decisions. Instead, we propose a simple recursive algorithm that creates these gambles. The state's zealous oversight of bookmakers demonstrates clearly that the confinement of gambling to a defined geographic space was of paramount concern. The impact of pathological gambling on the spouse of the gambler. A developmental perspective of gambling behavior in children and adolescents. Familial influences on gambling behavior : an analysis of 3359 twin pairs. Results showed that parents' gambling behavior influenced offspring gambling behavior directly. The current study aims to investigate the possible influence of parental factors on offspring gambling behavior. Inflationary policies and gambling on the exchange around the end of the blockades resulted in waves of commercial failures. The lottery assumption, in this framework, allows parents to engage in implicit wealth gambles. Rather, the big landowners enjoyed their prestigious positions and happily spent their money on gambling and womanizing. In choosing such directions, we can at best take relatively informed gambles about what works (as politics, as science). Nine-tenths of the crime in this country is caused by gambling. In the example of gambles, the attributes might be the maximal payoff and the probability of winning that maximal payoff. The strategy compatibility hypothesis and the scale compatibility hypothesis both suggest that the monetary component of the gambles is the more important attribute in valuation. Independence: let g1, g2 and g3 be any three alternative gambles. Casino gambling among urban elders : just another social activity ? Risk aversion is defined as the curvature of the value function rather than simple consumption gambles. At the same time, our research revealed the impact of gambling upon live performance sites. Beliefs about control over gambling among young people, and their relation to problem gambling. The findings show that the influence of parental gambling cognition on offspring gambling behavior is indirect and via offspring cognitions. The social learning perspective suggests that family members as well as friends can often act as significant models for gambling. One key recommendation - channelling a portion of gambling income to assist live music - was thought to be impossible. The allowance of petty gambling creates unimagined disorder, but, law-makers feared, the arbitrary and ineffectual policing of such activities also yields a bitter harvest. They allow the latter to venture into a hyper-public sphere where household dependants couple their economic quests with gossip, gawking, gambling, games and public displays. However, both the group and individually adjusted time trade-off data did not significantly differ from the standard gambles. The results suggest a possible cognitive mechanism of transmission of gambling behavior in the family from one generation to the next. He complained that the younger brother had become addicted to gambling. Such important taxes as those on opium, alcoholic spirits, gambling and pawnbroking, were farmed out to the highest bidder at regular auctions. The puzzle in this observation is that the fact of gambling seems to imply risk-loving, whereas that of insurance purchase implies risk-aversion. In gambling, one is aiming at a desired end - to increase one's money. In conclusion, the current study demonstrates that parents influenced offspring gambling behavior via offspring cognitions. Passing from gambling to two-or-more-person games, we encounter similar difficulties with prescriptive decision theory. If pre-commitment expenditures are sunk, then the potentially akratic person may prefer not to pre-commit, gambling that her future self will prove resolute. Valuing the prevention of non-fatal road injuries: contingent valuation vs. standard gambles. The ordering of the design, however, could have created its own confound (gambling first could lead to extra gambling in the trust game). In the first period, the agent buys insurance and/or gambles and the realization of his uncertain income is drawn. Models that result in such a strategy assume that an agent has nothing more to lose below a certain point, and thus gambles everything. Workers gambled on uninformed port-users, the ambivalent position of ship owners and the satisfaction of private terminal owners to weaken business consensus over port policy. Previously he had been gambling and drinking heavily. The last sequence shows him in shady saloons, where he falls prey to alcohol and gambling. They show the model will hold if an individual is risk-neutral with respect to gambles over lifeyears for all health states. Furthermore, bagdi festivals were famous occasions for great drinking, gambling and fighting, and contrary to the festivals of most other castes, bagdi festivals did not draw outside spectators. When they are not reckless, our gambles about practices amount to self-fulfilling prophecies: they change our relation to nature or to other people so as to make themselves more real. The time frames of the gambles were chosen to be minimally threatening while providing data needed to model patients' utility functions for survival time over different intervals. As it turns out, buying complete insurance and the lottery ticket as specified is in fact the best the agent can do in terms of fair gambles and insurance. In cases of health gambling the so arisen healthcare needs are no longer generic, archetypical, and common to all, but result from personal preferences or desires. State policy that aimed to crush petty gambling must be tied to official anxiety about the fissures in the concession system through which the state managed the urban retail economy. Naturally, the agent will not be willing to accept gambles with a negative cer tainty equivalent and higher values of the cer tainty equivalent will correspond to more attractive gambles. The reason is that habit-formation consumers are so averse to gambles in wealth because they can slowly adjust consumption in response to a decrease in wealth. Such activities would be a demoralizing public spectacle, analogous to tolerating the starvation on the public streets of poor wretches who had gambled unwisely with their lives in other ways. What is new and important is that the present findings showed that parental cognitions also have an indirect contribution in a behavior such as gambling via offspring's cognitions. Thus even common-law marriages and gambling debts that are wholly invalid according to state law may in fact retain significant force for the parties engaged in them. If we simply ignore the latter form, we are likely to produce the correct form over 99% of the time, even in texts related to gambling and sewing! Their gambling economy consists of two stages. A twin study of adult gambling behavior. If a person is made worse off because gambles he has made turned out badly, that is, because he has had poor option luck, then egalitarian concerns are not triggered. Given that we must either hold the person responsible (and so withhold treatment) or hold the person not responsible (and so deliver treatment), gambling is necessary. We regard as hard gambling those forms likely to cause problem gambling among customers—for example, because of high frequency combined with high staking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I made no suggestion that the question of the ethical views of the public on gambling entered into the question at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is gambling on the rate of sterling taking the strain entirely in this coming year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is gambling not with a £5 note but with the future of our country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have been given figures showing how much is gambled on football pools and in society generally. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are gambling with a risk of inflation far more severe than what we have experienced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would have gambled heavily right to the end that there was no prospect of such a rapprochement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are not many people who care whether betting, gambling and gaming are discussed now or put off to a later date. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To buy a lottery ticket would be totally different from gambling on the pools or on horses or dog racing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You will say, when you hear the scheme, that it is not gambling at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is the correct definition, then the bulk of the business of this country is transacted on gambling principles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I for one do not believe that it is gambling at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope not, because those gambles always fail, and only mean in the end that still worse things have to be done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We understand that there is wide support amongst other member states for our view that gambling policy should remain a matter for national authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You will have to control gambling far better than you are doing now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We deny this, but is the misery at all comparable to the misery which is caused by drink or which is caused by gambling? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, they have gambled with the economy since taking office. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not only had they gambled and lost, but they had put their neighbours and friends at risk as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot for the life of me see why the full duty should not be paid on all these gambling transactions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All these gambling casinos and clubs must be licensed and inspected. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are told that the turnover in betting and gambling is around £2,000 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then, of course, gambling debts have at times been recovered by dubious methods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I understand that there is gambling on elections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, why should we have laws to prevent women from gambling? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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