gamble
gamble 英 [ˈgæmbl] 美 ['ɡæmbl]
v. 赌博 n. 赌博；冒险；打赌
进行时:gambling 过去式:gambled 过去分词:gambled 第三人称单数:gambles 名词复数:gambles
- When you gamble, you take a risky chance on something. When an entrepreneur invests her own money in her business, she gambles on its success.
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- v. 赌博
- n. 赌博；冒险；打赌
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1. to gamble at cards
赌纸牌
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2. to gamble on the horses
赌马
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3. I gambled all my winnings on the last race.
我把赢了的钱全压在最后一场比赛上了。
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4. He's gambling his reputation on this deal.
他在以自己的声誉为这笔交易作赌注。
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5. It was wrong to gamble with our children's future.
拿我们孩子的未来冒险是错误的。
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6. She knew she was taking a gamble but decided it was worth it.
她知道是在冒险，但她认为冒这个险值得。
- gamble (n.) "risky venture," 1823, from gamble (v.). As "an act of gambling" by 1879.
- gamble (v.) "risk something of value on a game of chance," 1726 (implied in gambling), from a dialectal survival of Middle English gammlen, variant of gamenen "to play, jest, be merry," from Old English gamenian "to play, joke, pun," from gamen (see game (n.)), with form as in fumble, etc. Or possibly gamble is from a derivative of gamel "to play games" (1590s), itself likely a frequentative from game. Originally regarded as a slang word. The unetymological -b- may be from confusion with unrelated gambol (v.). Transitive meaning "to squander in gambling" is from 1808. Related: Gambled; gambling.
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