gamble 的 3 个定义
gam·bled, gam·bling.
- to play at any game of chance for money or other stakes.
- to stake or risk money, or anything of value, on the outcome of something involving chance: to gamble on a toss of the dice.
gam·bled, gam·bling.
- to lose or squander by betting: He gambled all his hard-earned money away in one night.
- to wager or risk: to gamble one's freedom.
- to take a chance on; venture; risk: I'm gambling that our new store will be a success.
- any matter or thing involving risk or hazardous uncertainty.
- a venture in a game of chance for stakes, especially for high stakes.
gamble 近义词
chance, speculation
take a chance on winning
gamble 的近义词 38 个
- bet
- speculate
- wager
- back
- brave
- challenge
- dare
- defy
- endanger
- face
- game
- hazard
- imperil
- jeopardize
- lot
- play
- plunge
- put
- risk
- set
- stake
- venture
- buck the odds
- cast lots
- cut the cards
- flip the coin
- go for broke
- lay money on
- make a bet
- put faith in
- put trust in
- shoot the moon
- shoot the works
- stick one's neck out
- take a flyer
- tempt fortune
- trust to luck
- try one's luck
gamble 的反义词 15 个
更多gamble例句
- Buying into the first generation of a folding product is a gamble—especially when it’s meant to replace your main work device.
- Her HBO show, I May Destroy You, has been a massive hit and has paid off her gamble from 2017, when she rejected a $1 million Netflix offer to buy the show rights because the streaming giant wouldn’t give her copyright royalties.
- Venture capital is by its nature a gamble—it’s right there in the name—and every gamble comes with the risk of heavy losses.
- Pouring money into plastics is a desperate gamble for Big Oil.
- That being said, it’s a gamble that in the long run pays a positive net return.
- Allowing the protests to go on with little interference was always a high-stakes gamble.
- Since Nestdrop continues to do so as of this writing, they wager a tense gamble that the odds will be in their favor.
- But the decision now to sever economic ties with the eastern regions was a surprise—and a gamble.
- As a result, the $1 million the DSCC is throwing in represents “an inexpensive gamble,” the source said.
- The pageant came back to Atlantic City and, appropriately, took a big gamble.
- If we find him there as Rutter said, you can gamble that trouble has camped in our dooryard for a lengthy stay.
- He was never so happy as when taking chances; his whole life was a gamble, with Providence holding the bank.
- They often dine together: the ladies love music and dancing, and some of the men gamble as much as the Portuguese.
- The Texan went off to rub down his horse, mend his accoutrements, squat around the cooking fires, and gamble with the drivers.
- Old Strang died insolvent; he used to gamble, had ruined himself without saying a word.