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词汇 gambit
释义 gambit
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡæm.bɪt/ us /ˈɡæm.bɪt/

gambitnoun[C] (CLEVER ACTION)


a clever action in a game or other situation that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk: 精心策划的一招;(常指带有风险的)策略;险招
opening gambitHer clever opening gambit gave her an early advantage.她开局就出险招,抢占了先机。
Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.他们降低税收的许诺很显然是大选年的策略。
games specialized
a way of beginning a game of chess, in which you intentionally lose a pawn (= game piece) in order to win some other form of advantage later(国际象棋中开局时牺牲一卒以取得优势的)开局让棋法
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Acting and acts
(your) every moveidiom
-ence
act
act for someone
act/do something on your own responsibilityidiom
ADL
agency
ant
beat
er
execution
exercise in something
move
praxis
put your money where your mouth isidiom
responsibility
role-play
rot
stuff
talk

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Board games

gambitnoun[C] (REMARK)


a remark that you make to someone in order to start a conversation: 开场白
opening gambit"I hear you're a friend of Jamie's" was her opening gambit.“我听说你是杰米的朋友,”她搭讪道。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
banter
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
palaver
pass
patter
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête

gambit | American Dictionary


gambit
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɡæm·bɪt/
something that you do or say that is intended to achieve an advantage and usually involves taking a risk:
The arrest of the political leader was seen as the opening gambit in a move to take control of the government.

Examples of gambit


gambit
Research into social roles and conversational gambits is steadily building up a picture of how people behave while talking.
There are a variety of conversational gambits we employ.
The focus on gambits - in conjunction with the teaching of language functions - continues to be popular with coursebook writers even today.
How can we incorporate these gambits in conversational interfaces?
Using filling words or gambits to fill pauses, to stall, and to gain time in order to keep the communication channel open and maintain discourse at times of difficulty.
They are not only lively, they are romantic and dramatic and between them their moods can reflect the whole gambit of human behaviour.
The latter does not offer a route to the former, and should be strenuously opposed as a mere manipulatory gambit on the part of" capital".
In the absence of such accounts, this gambit seems merely to change the subject.
Later, about forty-five seconds in, you begin to hear two simultaneous lead voices, an arrangement gambit that also came about by accident.
Already there is a humorous ambiguity about this opening gambit, with its plausibly authoritative, mock-documentary tone.
Given that the enquiry's ultimate objective is to assess value, a paradox about quality could provide an especially appropriate opening methodological gambit.
In the first place, spiritual progress occurs in stages, rather than being an all-or-nothing gambit at the end of one life.
On some occasions, however, the gambit can backfire.
A second essential gambit is changing the subject.
Pensioneering is like chess, you cannot play unless you know the gambits.
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