| 单词 | wager |
| 释义 | wagerWord family nounwagererwager Gambling wa·ger1 /ˈweɪdʒə $ -ər/ noun [countableC] old-fashioned DGGan agreement in which you win or lose money according to the result of something such as a race 打赌 SYN bet Examples from the Corpus wager• He also happened to have a wager on the outcome of the football game.• Volunteering a wager was unprecedented, therefore highly suspicious.• It did not matter that her wager was only five dollars.• Hours before the announcement, large wagers were placed in favour of his son William becoming next king.• For instance, on a question involving the law of wagers, there is generally no need to discuss what is a wager.• Sherlock explained the wager, and the answer Summerlee had given us.• Wednesday midnight the wager is up.• Say you made your wager at odds of 40-1. Gambling wager2 verb [transitiveT] old-fashioned 1 DGGto agree to win or lose an amount of money on the result of something such as a race 押〔赌注〕，打赌 SYN gamble wager something on something Stipes wagered all his money on an unknown horse. 斯蒂普斯把他所有的钱都押在一匹不出名的马上。 2. I’ll wager old-fashioned SUREused to say that you are confident that something is true 我敢打赌 Examples from the Corpus I’ll wager• I'll wager that boy's never worked in his life! Examples from the Corpus wager• And estimates are that players wager $ 8 billion a year at the tables, although no one knows for sure.• Some one up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam.• There may be considerable scepticism about Pascal's case for always wagering on the outsider if the odds are high enough.• Every year, a staggering £80m is wagered on this spectacular racing phenomenon.• I'd wager that, if anything, people's tastes are getting more diverse these days than they used to be. (1300-1400) Anglo-French wageure, from Old North French wagier; → WAGE2 |
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