(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'.

录入:昆西

• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• It was the same with gambling. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• 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. 神奇的知识之书.
• If he extends the meaning of immoral at all, it is to the vices most closely allied to sex--drink and gambling. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• He had looked on at a great deal of gambling in Paris, watching it as if it had been a disease. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Gambling houses had disappeared from public view. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A gambling husband! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• 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? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We pass a law against race-track gambling and add to the profits from faro. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For God's sake, stop him from gambling, my dear, she said, or he will ruin himself. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Mrs. Gryce told me herself that it was her gambling that frightened Percy Gryce--it seems he was really taken with her at first. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• An unprincipled, gambling little jackanapes! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

校对:塔玛拉