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wager n.赌注；打赌v.打赌；押注 (1) 你愿意在这场比赛上下个小赌注吗？(2) 我打赌我们的队会赢。(3) 他们就竞赛的结果打赌。(4) 你到哪儿也找不到比这个更好的货物，我敢打赌。(5) 我对那件事下赌注十美元。 You can use the word wager as either a noun or a verb, to mean "place a bet" or "the amount of money being risked in a bet." So you could offer a wager at the poker table, or ask if anyone wants to wager on Monday's football game. Either way you use it, wager is a Middle English word that comes from the Old North French wage, "to pledge."

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英 ['weɪdʒə(r)] 美 ['weɪdʒər] (1) Would you care to have a small wager on the game?(2) I made a wager that our team would win.(3) They laid a wager on the result of the race.(4) You won't find better goods anywhere else, I'll wager.(5) I wager ten dollars on it. To wager is to bet: you might say to your fellow train passengers, "I'll wager ten dollars that we won't get to Chicago on time." 1[VERB 动词]押(赌注)；打赌 If you wager on the result of a horse race, football match, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.   [V on n]  [V n on n]  [JOURNALISM 新闻]Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them...人们将赌注下在扬基队上并不说明就喜欢他们。Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.高尔夫球手投下重注赌尼克·法尔多夺冠。Wager is also a noun.There have been various wagers on certain candidates since the Bishop announced his retirement.自从大主教宣布退职后，人们纷纷打赌猜测几位继任人选。2[VERB 动词](表示很确定)打赌，保证 If you say that you will wager that something is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case.   [V that]She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in...她愿意打赌他居住的公寓并不属于他。I'll wager she'll still make the same impact when she's 70.我敢打赌，她就算到了70岁，影响力也会不减当年。

英语单词	wager
英美音标	英 ['weɪdʒə(r)] 美 ['weɪdʒər]
中文释义	n.赌注；打赌 v.打赌；押注
英语例句	(1) Would you care to have a small wager on the game? (2) I made a wager that our team would win. (3) They laid a wager on the result of the race. (4) You won't find better goods anywhere else, I'll wager. (5) I wager ten dollars on it.
中文例句	(1) 你愿意在这场比赛上下个小赌注吗？ (2) 我打赌我们的队会赢。 (3) 他们就竞赛的结果打赌。 (4) 你到哪儿也找不到比这个更好的货物，我敢打赌。 (5) 我对那件事下赌注十美元。
vocabulary简明	To wager is to bet: you might say to your fellow train passengers, "I'll wager ten dollars that we won't get to Chicago on time."
vocabulary扩展	You can use the word wager as either a noun or a verb, to mean "place a bet" or "the amount of money being risked in a bet." So you could offer a wager at the poker table, or ask if anyone wants to wager on Monday's football game. Either way you use it, wager is a Middle English word that comes from the Old North French wage, "to pledge."
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]押(赌注)；打赌 If you wager on the result of a horse race, football match, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not. [V on n] [V n on n] [JOURNALISM 新闻] Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them... 人们将赌注下在扬基队上并不说明就喜欢他们。 Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship. 高尔夫球手投下重注赌尼克·法尔多夺冠。 Wager is also a noun. There have been various wagers on certain candidates since the Bishop announced his retirement. 自从大主教宣布退职后，人们纷纷打赌猜测几位继任人选。 2 [VERB 动词](表示很确定)打赌，保证 If you say that you will wager that something is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case. [V that] She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in... 她愿意打赌他居住的公寓并不属于他。 I'll wager she'll still make the same impact when she's 70. 我敢打赌，她就算到了70岁，影响力也会不减当年。

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