- 1nB2
/ˈɡæmblɪŋ/
when people risk money or things they own on the result of something nobody can be sure about, such as a card game or a horse race.
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Putting money on an outcome nobody can know in advance — the cards are still face down, the horses have not finished, and once the money is on the table you have handed the result over to chance.
可以想成把錢押在一件還沒有人知道結果的事情上。牌還蓋著、馬還沒跑完、球賽還沒結束，你先把錢放上桌——放上去的那一刻，…更多收起
可以想成把錢押在一件還沒有人知道結果的事情上。牌還蓋著、馬還沒跑完、球賽還沒結束，你先把錢放上桌——放上去的那一刻，決定權就交給了運氣。這個字的重心在那個「不確定」：如果結果是可以算出來的，那就不叫 gambling 了。押上去的也不一定是現金，房子、車子、任何有價值的東西都算。原始詞典資料2 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。
gamblingnoun/ˈɡæm.bl̩.ɪŋ/
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An activity characterized by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by skill and/or chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.
- He lost a fortune through gambling at casinos.
- Online gambling has become a global industry.
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。