Gamble

(noun.) a risky act or venture.

(noun.) money that is risked for possible monetary gain.

(verb.) play games for money.

(verb.) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; 'When you buy these stocks you are gambling'.

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• Fourdrinier to engage with them in bringing the machinery to perfection, and patents obtained in this country by Mr. Gamble were assigned to them in 1804. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But what reformers have to learn is that men don't gamble just for the sake of violating the law. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• And once there was a young man in America who gambled till he had lost his last dollar. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live; who knows how or by what means she succeeded? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They had gambled deeply in the prospective looting of Manchuria and China, and they would suffer no withdrawal. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Major, the Captain, any one of those gambling men whom Madame sees would take her life for a hundred louis. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was the same with gambling. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Only there's one thing I order you to avoid, which, if you do not, I'll cut you off with a shilling, by Jove; and that's gambling. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He had looked on at a great deal of gambling in Paris, watching it as if it had been a disease. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• John gambles dreadfully, and always loses--poor boy! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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