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gambit

/gam-bit/US // ˈgæm bɪt //UK // (ˈɡæmbɪt) //

赌博,赌法,赌注,博弈

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
    • : any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
    • : a remark made to open or redirect a conversation.

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Examples

  • Regular visitors to local art spaces will recognize some artists’ familiar gambits in new editions.

  • It’s a calculated gambit, primed to prod advertisers into thinking they’re missing out on the next big thing in social media.

  • Charles Schwab’s namesake brokerage, which slashed brokerage commissions in the 1970s, had a similar marketing gambit.

  • I guess Falwell folded on that gambit when he realized, as I’ve said here many a time, video is forever.

  • As publishers look for pockets of audience engagement wherever they can find them, limited-run educational newsletters are a gambit gaining some traction.

  • This gambit means Aereo is avoiding paying anything to broadcasters or the middlemen it is replacing.

  • For these other news organizations, their hunt for the ex-prisoners was a multi-thousand dollar high-risk gambit.

  • How did you arrive at him as your Gambit, and why did you decide to move away from Taylor Kitsch?

  • Jensen is in a different political place than Grimes, and her more aggressive stance may indeed be a savvy strategic gambit.

  • One gambit is to require photo identification, a reasonable-sounding provision that 34 states have now adopted.

  • Whatever kind of gambit is being played here, it is bigger than any of its parts or pieces.

  • When the rolling was very bad, Mrs. Gambit clutched me with one hand and her right hand neighbour with the other.

  • Nor could I understand why Mrs. Gambit spoke scornfully of this act of kindness, which was entirely unexpected by me.

  • Supper ended, Mr. Gambit lit a pipe of tobacco and began to smoke, begging me not to mind him.

  • When he had finished, Mrs. Gambit dropped her chin and returned to practical business.