0 to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success -- 投机;冒险
1 a risk that might result in loss of money or failure -- 冒险;赌博;无把握的事情
Her publishers knew they were taking a gamble when they agreed to publish such an unusual novel. 她的出版商知道,同意出版这样一部标新立异的小说是一种冒险。
It was a gamble using such an inexperienced director, but it paid off (= was successful). 任用这样一位没有经验的导演确实是一种赌博,但结果大获成功。
The second category of poor were those whose deviant nature was expressed both in appeareance (ruinous and presumptuous clothing) and behaviour (gambling, squandering, fornication).
Subjects were asked to evaluate pairs of gambles of comparable expected value.
The same considerations apply when the agent is asked for the highest price at which she would buy the gambles.
Cricket-fighting is a sport in which two male crickets are made to engage in a duel, and it often involves gambling.
Writing an explicit description of the expected utility as a function of gambles is overly complicated and relies on the order of task completions.
In a sense, all of our research and theoretical commitments are gambles, investments we hope will pay off epistemologically.
A married man, who had risked losing his cohabiting girlfriend if he had not agreed to marriage, commented that 'she seemed worth gambling on'.
He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling.