gambit 的定义
- 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.
gambit 近义词
plan, plot
更多gambit例句
- 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.