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英语单词 gambler
英美音标 英 ['ɡæmblə(r)] 美 ['ɡæmblə(r)]
中文释义 n.赌徒
英语例句 (1) He stands confessed as a notorious gambler.
(2) The gambler laid his house last night.
中文例句 (1) 他是个恶名昭彰的赌徒这个事实很明显。
(2) 那个赌徒昨晚以房子打赌。
vocabulary简明 A gambler is a person who takes a lot of high-risk chances. Your friends might call you a gambler if you spend your free time bungee jumping and playing high-stakes poker.
vocabulary扩展 When you seek adventure or danger, you're gambling with your safety or even your life, which makes you one kind of gambler. Other gamblers enjoy betting money on sports, card games, or games of chance. Gambler came after gamble, "risk something of value on a game of chance," from the Middle English gammlen, "play or be merry," with its Old English root gamen, or "game."
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]赌徒;赌棍 A gambler is someone who gambles regularly, for example in card games or horse racing.
    2
    [N-COUNT 可数名词]冒险主义者;投机者 If you describe someone as a gambler, you mean that they are ready to take risks in order to gain advantages or success.
    • He had never been afraid of failure: he was a gambler, ready to go off somewhere else and start all over again.

      他从来都不害怕失败:他是个冒险家,随时准备到别处从头再来。

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