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gambling

/gam-bling/US // ˈgæm blɪŋ //

赌博,赌博业,对赌,赌钱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the activity or practice of playing at a game of chance for money or other stakes.
    • : the act or practice of risking the loss of something important by taking a chance or acting recklessly: If you don't back up your data, that's gambling.

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Examples

  • During the 1990’s, Jordan’s propensity for gambling often overshadowed his play on the court.

  • ESPN’s “The Last Dance” documentary film spent an episode detailing the basketball great’s controversial history of gambling in casinos, on team flights and on the golf course.

  • The legality of sports gambling has varied greatly over time and place.

  • So, here’s our look at the past, present, and future of sports gambling.

  • In their absence, e-sports continued to grow — along with gambling on e-sports.

  • At 17 acres, it was the largest gambling house ever constructed, and at a cost of $1.2 billion, it was also the most expensive.

  • I was not with him on the 29th when he was gambling and then drove home and actually got the DUI.

  • She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

  • Is gambling culture more desirable than gay culture and counterculture?

  • But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.

  • Still, gambling seemed to be made particularly fascinating here, and he wanted to be fascinated, wanted it badly.

  • Jorgensen's gambling room was different from the bar and dining room as they were from each other.

  • She wondered if the old gambling spirit had broken out again, and asked if they were playing poker or mont.

  • Lessard was away in the hole—gambling and other things—I hinted the idea to him; he jumped at it, as I thought he would.

  • It is in tune with the old gambling spirit that still colors the country; no doubt has kept it alive.