喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold betting is this: a result is still open, nobody knows which way it will fall, and someone puts money on one side of it. Everything else on this page keeps that open question and changes what is riding on it.

「betting」可以想成這樣一個畫面：有件事還沒有結果，沒有人知道會往哪邊倒，而有人把錢押在其中一邊。這個「還沒有…更多收起「betting」可以想成這樣一個畫面：有件事還沒有結果，沒有人知道會往哪邊倒，而有人把錢押在其中一邊。這個「還沒有結果、卻有人敢押」的畫面，是這一頁所有用法共用的底圖。差別只在於押出去的是什麼——有時候是錢，有時候只是一句話的把握。

Two branches

把錢押在還沒有結果的事上

這一族把核心畫面照字面用：真的有錢押出去。

noun · B2

The activity of putting money on the result of a game, a race, or anything else that has not been decided yet. If the result goes the way you chose, you win money; if it does not, you lose the money you put in.

賭博／下注

把「還用賭嗎」當成一種語氣

核心畫面需要「結果未定」才成立。這一族反過來用：結果太明顯了，明顯到沒有人會接這場賭。

noun · C1

Said when you think something is very likely to happen or to be true, often something you expect and are not pleased about. It has the shape of a question, but the speaker is not really asking; they are stating what they expect.

八成就是…吧

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

bettingadj/ˈbɛ.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    Describing one who bets or gambles.

    • If I were a betting man, I'd wager my next pay check he couldn't do that again.

bettingnoun/ˈbɛ.tɪŋ/

  • 1

    The act of placing a bet.

    • Once the field was prepared, and preliminaries of the game all settled, the bettings all made and goods all “staked,” night came on without the appearance of any players on the ground.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。