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词汇 gambler
释义 gambler
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡæm.blər/ us /ˈɡæm.blɚ/
someone who often gambles, for example in a game or on a horse race: 赌博者,赌徒
compulsive gamblera self-help group for compulsive gamblers赌博成瘾的人组成的戒赌自助小组
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gambler | American Dictionary


gambler
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɡæm·blər/
a person who risks losing money in the hope of winning a lot more money:
Gamblers can seek help from government-financed treatment programs.
A compulsive gambler is someone who cannot stop risking and usually losing their money in the hope of winning a lot more money, esp. by playing cards and other games in casinos.

Examples of gambler


gambler
Thus, the junta's position might be likened to the gambler, down to his last chips, willing to stake all on a final throw.
No "rational" gambler can be expected to pay anywhere near it for the privilege of playing the game once.
Playful observations of everyday life and discontinuities in logic allow gamblers to translate dreams and other visions and occurrences into ' hunches'.
The impact of pathological gambling on the spouse of the gambler.
Characteristics of pathological gamblers identified among patients on a psychiatric admissions service.
Other well-known biases introduced by the representative heuristic are the gambler's fallacy and base-rate neglect.
Our gambler, for instance, may honestly have a desire not to gamble.
The trick has to be to cover up the original text, meditate on the illustrations, and write what real cowboys and gamblers might have said.
The gambler's fallacy is the belief that when a series of trials all have the same outcome then soon an opposite outcome will follow.
On this understanding, we are simply gamblers, forced to concede that the favourite sometimes comes in last.
Such a divine takeover seems to undercut not only the freedom of the gambler, but also his very individuality as a person.
Bassano, a compulsive gambler, in return for his titles; immediately after the wedding, the happy couple went their separate ways.
The gambler's expected gain is infinite.
Nonetheless, if casino managers adopt the policy of excluding such individuals, they will save money by identifying some genuine cheaters, despite occasionally showing lucky gamblers the door too.
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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