gamble的意思|gamble的解释-里氏词典

Gamble \Gamble\, v. t.
To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
``Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their
estates.'' --Ames.

Gamble \Gam"ble\, n.
An act of gambling; a transaction or proceeding involving
gambling; hence, anything involving similar risk or
uncertainty. [Colloq.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Gamble \Gam"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gambled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gambling}.] [Dim. of game. See 2d {Game}.]
To play or game for money or other stake.

Though the Chevrolet Corvette has had a plastic body for years, the Lumina, Trans Sport and Silhouette still represent a big gamble for GM.
Analysts said the same aggressive management style that helped Coleco hit the jackpot with the gamble on Cabbage Patch Kids in 1983 helped bring on its troubles.
"We'll let you gamble there as high as you've got the nerve," Wynn promised.
'There is a golden opportunity to establish brands and strong market franchises from scratch.' But what are the chances of the gamble paying off?
"Perhaps you can call it Goh's gamble," says a Singaporean securities analyst.
After all, he does worry about the gamble he is taking.
Even 'coal' offers a fair gamble - a two penny dividend.
The study found a relationship between an individual school's success _ measured by students' eagerness to learn and staff satisfaction _ and the willingness of its principals and assistant principals to gamble on new ideas.
This is a gamble," said Joseph Bland of Santa Barbara on opening day Friday.
Lenders who keep the loans also gamble rates won't rise much, since they make the loans at only about a percentage point above their cost, roughly half the margin for conventional loans.
They figure the gamble is worth the risk, she said.
"Use of all these products amounts to an expensive therapeutic gamble," FDA Commissioner Frank E. Young said in a statement.
If a gamble on Ezzoud is a double gamble, then when it comes up it brings double the satisfaction. He is his own man, or horse: abundant with talent, miserly in its deployment: hugely frustrating, proportionately rewarding.
If a gamble on Ezzoud is a double gamble, then when it comes up it brings double the satisfaction. He is his own man, or horse: abundant with talent, miserly in its deployment: hugely frustrating, proportionately rewarding.
Prosecutors acknowledged that introducing the murky tape was a gamble after the judge refused to let jurors have a transcript of it while it played.
Other analysts called it more of a casino gamble.
Mr Smouha believes that civil action against Abu Dhabi would be lengthy, costly and too much of a gamble. Mr Elias's hand would be strengthened if indictments were issued in the US against any member of the Abu Dhabi administration.
'A gamble on growth', decided the newspapers.
The cruise missile was so important to President Carter that he took a high-risk political gamble with it.
But it seems reckless for so prudent a man as David Wilson to gamble the future of Hong Kong's six million people on such a long shot.
So that's the part that's a gamble.
For 50 years, they won the gamble.
His gamble of storing all his furniture in someone else's apartment on the second floor had paid off, he said. It was still there.
They're worth the gamble, she said.
Given its U.S. links and network of other Indonesian canneries, Mantrust's move into Biak isn't a gamble.
Bragg's view is that the odds on the Faber winner, Nikki Llewelyn, making loads of money, were better than his own LWT gamble.
Climatologists say it may take two decades to learn whether the greenhouse effect causes summer heat waves, and until then any government response to slow down global warming is just a gamble.
More important still, even when underlying inflation has at last been driven down to low levels, strong growth may well not ensue. Like the British public, the government has taken a gamble.
Some of course see a "riverboat gamble" in Mr. Reagan's willingness to tolerate deficits to hold the line on taxes.
It would secure a resounding win in the state election, and set Mr Scharping on his way for the chancellor's office come the general election in October. This week, it all looked like a very risky gamble.

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