gambles

英 [ˈɡæmblz] 美 [ˈɡæmblz]

v.  (牌戏、赛马等中)赌博，打赌; 冒风险; 碰运气; 以…为赌注
n.  赌博; 打赌; 冒险
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  1. N-COUNT 冒险；投机；赌博
    A gamble is a risky action or decision that you take in the hope of gaining money, success, or an advantage over other people.
    1. Yesterday, he named his cabinet and took a big gamble in the process.
      昨天他冒了很大的风险任命了内阁成员。
    2. ...the French president's risky gamble in calling a referendum.
      法国总统决定举行全民公决的冒险之举
  2. VERB 冒险；碰运气；以…为赌注
    If you gamble on something, you take a risky action or decision in the hope of gaining money, success, or an advantage over other people.
    1. Few firms will be willing to gamble on new products...
      很少有公司愿意冒险开发新产品。
    2. They are not prepared to gamble their careers on this matter...
      他们不愿意把自己的事业押在这件事上。
    3. Who wants to gamble with the life of a friend?
      谁会拿朋友的性命作赌注？
  3. VERB （在纸牌、赛马等中）赌（钱）；赌博
    If you gamble an amount of money, you bet it in a game such as cards or on the result of a race or competition. People who gamble usually do it frequently.
    1. Most people visit Las Vegas to gamble their hard-earned money...
      大多数人拿着辛苦挣来的钱去拉斯维加斯赌博。
    2. John gambled heavily on the horses...
      约翰在这几匹马上下了很大的赌注。
    3. Britain is the only country in Europe that allows minors to gamble...
      英国是欧洲唯一一个允许未成年人赌博的国家。
    4. He gambled away his family estate on a single throw of the dice.
      他掷了一次骰子便把家产输得精光。
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双语例句

  1. Just as other company gambles have succeeded expanding beyond books, opening the marketplace up to third-party sales, the Kindle AWS has paid off.
    就像亚马逊做出的其它赌注一样（比如扩展图书之外的市场、将自营市场发展成第三方销售平台、Kindle平板/阅读器等），亚马逊网络服务也获得了巨大的成功。
  2. McNamee and Bono's faith in Elevation has paid off, as its2009 investment in Facebook helped erase memories of its gambles on Palm and Forbes.
    麦克纳米和博诺对高地风投的信心收到了回报，2009年该公司对Facebook的投资极为成功，抹去了先前押宝Palm和福布斯（Forbes）的不愉快回忆。
  3. She dislikes flying, never gambles and has been married to her husband Oliver for 49 years.
    她讨厌坐飞机，从没去过赌场，嫁给她丈夫奥利佛（Oliver）已经49年。
  4. In fact, the reasons people take crazy gambles are far more complex.
    事实上，促使人们做出疯狂冒险行为的原因要复杂得多。
  5. I guess like a lot of Americans, I underestimate my own appetite for novelty and the gambles that come with the new.
    我想我与许多美国人一样，低估了自己对新奇事物的欲望和伴随着新事物而来的风险博弈。
  6. With a bad car you have to take gambles in strategy and going for crazy things.
    开着一辆烂车你的策略只能是赌博并且做些疯狂的事情。
  7. When building a Chinese road map there are many gambles and unknowns.
    当我们制定中国战略的时候，冒险和未知的成分太多了。
  8. 20070804: In1929, Wall Street gambles lost their shirts and the awful Depression began.
    1929年，华尔街的投机商丧失了全部财产，可怕的经济大萧条时期开始了。
  9. Led by Disney, they are cutting back on the number of movies they produce, making the gambles they do take all the more risky.
    在迪斯尼的领导下，他们减少了电影制作量，赌注的风险就更大了。
  10. George Soros sets aside a proportion of the profits from his financial gambles to fund educational foundations and other good works.
    乔治索罗斯（georgesoros）留出了在金融赌博中获得的一部分利润，用于资助教育基金会和做其它善事。
  11. Just goes to show that temperament and adjusting to a new club are the biggest gambles of all and that Reyes and Van Persie have it all to do on that front.
    杰弗斯的失败提醒我们融入并适应一个球队需要冒很大的风险，希望雷耶斯跟范佩西不会遭遇他们前辈的覆辙。
  12. And if there was ever a moment in the calendar when it seems foolish to embark on market gambles, August is surely that point.
    如果一年之中有那么一个时间点进入市场赌博会显得很愚蠢，那肯定就是8月。
  13. If you accepted 100 gambles like this, you are virtually certain to end up with a substantial gain.
    如果你进行100次类似的赌博，实际上你最终肯定会赢得一笔可观的收益。
  14. He gambles regularly-pretends to be a judge of form and to win quite a lot.
    他经常去赌赛马装出是个判断参赛马匹竞技状态的高手，会赢很多很多的钱。
  15. Eventually he gambles away all his money and has to borrow a quarter from another gambler just to use the men's room.
    最后他把所有的钱都输光了，以至于他想上洗手间时不得不从另1个赌徒那里借了个硬币。
  16. In one experiment, the truckers were asked to choose between gambles and certain payoffs.
    在一场实验中，卡车司机们必须在赌博和确定的报酬中做出选择。
  17. He drinks or gambles or her likes to leave he.
    她的丈夫不仅酗酒还赌博，她想要离开他了。
  18. Her story recalls the vision and manoeuvrings, strategy and gambles, diplomacy and dangers, courage and pettiness of those dramatic days. And it is a tale of immense personalities.
    在这部作品中，她回顾了那个戏剧性时代中的眼界与手腕、策略与赌博、外交与危险、勇气与小气。这是一个讲述巨大人格魅力的故事。
  19. In the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns, the management did not just take reckless gambles with other people's money.
    在雷曼和贝尔斯登倒台中我们可以看到，那些管理层就像拿着别人钱的鲁莽赌徒一样。
  20. He thinks the hebolong can win, and gambles five Schillings with me.
    他认为亥伯龙会赢，与我赌五先令。
  21. He deserves credit for resisting specious gambles in September.
    他在九月间抵制了一些似是而非的冒险行动，这是值得称赞的。
  22. He gambles most of his income on the horses.
    他把大部分收入都赌在赛马上了。
  23. Not only the way he gambles.
    他呀，不但赌钱嚣张。
  24. Yet even well-judged gambles often fail.
    不过，即便判断英明的赌博也往往会失败。
  25. If Tesco gambles small and wins, competitors will have time to copy it before it reaches critical mass.
    如果乐购小赌一把赢了，竞争对手在它达到临界质量之前有足够时间进行仿制。
  26. It was the steepest and gravest of gambles with the future of his Navy and his country.
    这是拿他的海军和他的祖国的前途在这最凶险、最重大的赌局中孤注一掷。
  27. Long-shot gambles that may tempt you, rarely work out.
    高风险的赌博经常吸引你，但却很少成功。
  28. As gambles go, it's probably a decent one.
    随着博弈的继续进行，这次或许能取得不错的结果。
  29. Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.
    任何股票投机者都必须作好输钱的准备。
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