Gambling
['ɡæmblɪŋ] or ['gæmblɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); 'his gambling cost him a fortune'; 'there was heavy play at the blackjack table'.
錄入:昆西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gamble
手打:苏珊
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Gaming, playing for money.
整理:梅纳德
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that you are gambling and win, signifies low associations and pleasure at the expense of others. If you lose, it foretells that your disgraceful conduct will be the undoing of one near to you.
艾迪整理
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was the same with gambling. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- 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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- 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. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He had looked on at a great deal of gambling in Paris, watching it as if it had been a disease. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Gambling houses had disappeared from public view. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- A gambling husband! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If her aunt turned such a stony ear to the fiction of the gambling debts, in what spirit would she receive the terrible avowal of the truth? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- We pass a law against race-track gambling and add to the profits from faro. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- For God's sake, stop him from gambling, my dear, she said, or he will ruin himself. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mrs. Gryce told me herself that it was her gambling that frightened Percy Gryce--it seems he was really taken with her at first. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- An unprincipled, gambling little jackanapes! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
校對:塔玛拉