gamble
gamble 英 [ˈgæmbl] 美 ['ɡæmbl]
vi. 赌博；孤注一掷；投机；打赌 vt. 赌博；孤注一掷；冒险假设 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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- vi. 赌博；孤注一掷；投机；打赌
- vt. 赌博；孤注一掷；冒险假设
- n. 赌博；冒险；打赌
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1. The necessity of making a living disentranced him from his gamble.
谋生的必要使他醒悟，不再赌博了。
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2. He did not drink, gamble or smoke.
他不饮酒、不赌博也不抽烟。
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3. Almost anything that we like to do - eat, shop, gamble, have sex - contain the potential for psychological and physiological dependence.
我们喜欢做的几乎任何事——吃饭，购物，赌博，性爱——都可能引起心理和生理的依赖。
- 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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