bet的意思|bet的解释-里氏词典

Bet \Bet\, n. [Prob. from OE. abet abetting, OF. abet, fr.
abeter to excite, incite. See {Abet}.]
That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two
parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue;
the act of giving such a pledge; a wager. ``Having made his
bets.'' --Goldsmith.

Bet \Bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bet}, {Betted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Betting}.]
To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to
wager.

John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on
his head. --Shak.

I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. --O. W.
Holmes.

Bet \Bet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bet}, {Betted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Betting}.]
To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to
wager.

John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on
his head. --Shak.

I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. --O. W.
Holmes.

Bet \Bet\,
imp. & p. p. of {Beat}. [Obs.]

Bet \Bet\, a. & adv.
An early form of {Better}. [Obs.]

{To go bet}, to go fast; to hurry. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Despite heavy publicity about Pauley's reported unhappiness, Scott said, "I would have bet the family farm that she never was going to leave.
But they quickly add that they are unwilling to bet on it ahead of the employment report.
But nothing can tell you how well they will do in the future. Your best bet is to examine a trust's consistency.
"Our level of confidence will drive how big a bet we'll make," says Kenneth Gregory, a principal in the firm.
A man convicted two years ago for landing a small plane on the Champs Elysees had his pilot's license suspended today for three years for flying 1,000 feet over Paris on a bet.
"There has never been in our country's history this degree of community sharing," Riley said. "You can bet your bottom dollar that the next city that has a disaster, Charleston will be represented" in giving aid.
Frozen offerings imported from farther flung seas may prove a better bet. Last week I bought a solid block of small, white squid and hacked my way gratefully through them.
Either way, the bet is huge.
Stan Druckenmiller, a managing director of Soros Fund Management, explains that Mr. Soros outperformed the market in that period mainly with a big bet that the Japanese yen would rise and the U.S. dollar would fall.
The report is expected to indicate some drought-related deterioration of crop conditions in July but traders weren't willing to bet heavily on the USDA numbers.
Entry and sterling's devaluation are "a safe bet," says Ronald H. Holzer, vice president and chief dealer at Harris Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago.
Energy futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange slid below psychological resistance points as traders continued to bet on near-term peace in the Persian Gulf.
Short selling in the over-the-counter market accelerated during the month ended mid-Feburary, as investors bet against some of the biggest gainers of the early-1987 bull market.
But he would probably be tempted by one of the profession's young intellectual heavyweights. Mr Paul Krugman, a rising star at MIT, is a good bet.
"We bet on a second semester of growth, invested in computerization and ground personnel, and the truth is that the growth didn't happen," says Sergio Figueiredo Jardim, VASP's director of route and schedule planning.
'I want to bet big, Mike.
Many investors may be celebrating the stock market's recent comeback, but there's little to shout about for people who bet on the securities industry itself.
Your heirs will not benefit. So when you buy an annuity you are effectively placing a bet on how long you will live.
Says Taylor, "I'll bet on the boll weevil." In Coffee County, they're not taking any bets.
I'll bet they could be levered into offering good deals.' To my eyes, that proposal looks well worth a try.
Professional "short sellers" who bet on stock declines and large traders who have used margin accounts liberally in the past have cut back sharply this year, brokerage executives say.
Andy Garcia, who plays Sonny's out-of-wedlock son, seem the best bet to come out a winner with the new movie, to do a "Pacino" and become a major star.
Its drama critic, Howard Kissel, called "Speed-The-Plow" "Mamet's clearest, wittest play," but added "I bet it would be even funnier with an actress." Clive Barnes of the New York Post agreed.
"We began to think, `Something is going on here,' but none of us had enough guts to go bet even at 9-1," said Sevareid.
In each bet, the bettor _ or the computer _ picks six numbers between 1 and 54. The odds of winning the Lotto on a two-play ticket are 12.9 million to one.
As the dollar surged, investors who had sold dollars on the bet it had further to drop were forced to buy them back to cover their short positions.
"I'll bet every member of the cabinet secretly shares that view," gloats Hideaki Kase, a conservative writer who shares it himself.
The central banks' activities this week, though modest in dollar amounts, have at least "introduced the risk of an upward move" for traders or speculators inclined to bet against the dollar, he said.
That means that the San Francisco 49ers had to win by more than seven points in the National Football League championship game for Stupak to lose his bet.
The exchange's best bet to broaden its product base now seems to be a merger with the New York Merc, the nation's leading oil-trading arena.

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