| 词汇 | gamble |
| 释义 | gamble verb uk /ˈɡæm.bəl/ us /ˈɡæm.bəl/ [ I ] to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success: 投机;冒险 gamble onAnyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.任何进行股票投机的人都必须要做好赔钱的准备。 C2[ I or T ] to risk money, for example in a game or on a horse race: 赌博，打赌 I like to gamble when I play cards - it makes it more interesting.我玩牌喜欢赌钱——这更有趣些。 gamble onHe gambles on the horses (= horse races).他赌马。 gamble awayHe gambled away all of our savings.他把我们所有的积蓄都赌了个精光。 Taking risks adventurer all in be skating on thin iceidiom bet the farm/ranchidiom broke compromise expose have/put your head on the blockidiom hazard high wire high-stakes imperil kamikaze put your neck on the lineidiom put/lay something on the lineidiom re-expose risk run the risk of doing somethingidiom sail skate You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Gambling & bookmaking Phrasal verbgamble on something gamble noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈɡæm.bəl/ us /ˈɡæm.bəl/ C2 a risk that might result in loss of money or failure: 冒险;赌博;无把握的事情 take a gambleHer publishers knew they were taking a gamble when they agreed to publish such an unusual novel.她的出版商知道，同意出版这样一部标新立异的小说是一种冒险。 a gamble paid offIt was a gamble using such an inexperienced director, but it paid off (= was successful).任用这样一位没有经验的导演确实是一种赌博，但结果大获成功。 Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously non-lethal on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom threateningly tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous gamble | American Dictionarygamble verb us/ˈɡæm·bəl/ to risk losing money in the hope of winning a lot more money, esp. if the result of a future event happens as you hope: [ I ]Some people like to gamble even though the odds are against them. [ M ]He gambled away most of his money. To gamble is also to do something that you think is worth doing although it might not succeed or you might lose money: [ + that clause ]We’re gambling that enough people will show up at the concert to cover our expenses. gamblenoun[ Cusually sing ]us/ˈɡæm·bəl/ Starting up a new business is always a gamble. gamblingnoun[ U ]us/ˈɡæm·blɪŋ/ Gambling in the form of state lotteries is used to raise money for education. gamble | Business Englishgamble noun[ C,usually singular ] uk /ˈɡæmbl/us an action that involves risk but that could have a good result: Homebuyers who are willing to take a gamble that interest rates will stay low can get a mortgage at less than 3%. The gamble paid off and the President's reputation as a strong leader was enhanced. a big/huge/massive gamble gamble verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈɡæmbl/us to do something that involves risk and could fail but that you hope will succeed or make money: gamble on sthHe gambled his political future on the success of the project. gamble with sthThe President warned Republicans not to gamble with Medicare. Investors gambled that the US interest rate rise would be the last one this year. Large numbers are gambling on the house price boom - a gamble they may regret if prices fall or interest rates rise. to risk money, for example in a game or on a horse race: In the 2000s casinos began to spread, providing alternative places to gamble. Phrasal verbgamble sth away Examples of gamblegamble 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. See all examples of gamble 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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