Gaming

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Game

(n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

校对:伍德罗

• That very night, while yet full of gratitude and good resolves, this whole sum, and its amount doubled, was lost at the gaming-table. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• One of the Fathers says, 'Gaming table. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He got him to the gaming-houses; and he was one of the sort that, when he once got a going there, there was no holding back. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I once heard of an Italian, who sat down at a gaming table with only a louis, (that's a foreign sovereign), in his pocket. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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