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gam.ble (obj)5gAm7b6vto do something risky that might result in loss of money or failure, in the hope of making money or achieving success投机，冒险Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money. [I]任何股票投机者都必须作好输钱的准备。In foreign policy, as in other spheres, the president has gambled outrageously during his two terms of office. [I]在外交政策上，就像在其他的领域一样，总统在其两届任期内肆意投机冒险。You're rather gambling on it being (= trusting that it will be) a nice day by holding the party in the garden, aren't you? [I]你要把聚会办在花园里，是相信天气一定会不错，对吧？Further reductions in the armed forces, he said, would be襣ambling with the nation's defence? [I] 他说，进一步削减武装力量将是“拿国防来冒险”。I'm gambling that he'll have forgotten what I promised last year. [+ that clause]我敢打赌他会忘了我去年所作的承诺。You might gamble by BETTING money, for example in a game or on a horse race.赌钱，赌博When they played cards they always gambled. [I]他们玩纸牌时总要赌博。When he gambled he always won, whether he was playing roulette, poker or just the fruit machines in Las Vegas. [I]不管他在拉斯维加斯是玩轮盘赌还是扑克牌甚至是吃角子老虎机，他赌钱总是赢。He'd gambled away most of his inheritance by the time he was thirty. [M]他到三十岁时已赌输掉了他继承的大部分遗产。
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