wagers

英 [ˈweɪdʒəz]

美 [ˈweɪdʒərz]

n.  打赌
v.  打赌; 押(赌注); 打包票
wager的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 押(赌注);打赌
  If youwager onthe 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Wageris also a noun.
     
  4. 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。
• VERB (表示很确定)打赌，保证
  If you say that you willwager thatsomething is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Amy J. Wagers, a member of Dr. Rando's team, continued to study the blood of young mice after she moved in 2004 to Harvard, where she is an associate professor.
  兰多博士的团队成员埃米·J·韦杰斯（AmyJ.Wagers）在2004年进入哈佛，之后继续研究幼龄鼠的血液。她现在是哈佛的副教授。
• He wagers$ 100 on the result of the election.
  他用100美元来对选举结果打赌。
• 'The name Alice now accounts for over a third of all wagers we have taken on the Royal Baby name,' said William Hill spokesman Joe Crilly.
  在所有的名字预测中，有超过三分之一的押注认为皇室宝宝叫爱丽丝的可能性最大，英国威廉希尔博彩公司的发言人乔·克里利说道。
• A person who wagers money on the outcome of games or sporting events.
  一个通过游戏的结果或均等的机会来赌钱的人。
• Dr. Wagers's team has been investigating a specific region of the brain involved in perceiving smells.
  韦杰斯的团队一直在对大脑中与嗅觉相关的一个特殊区域进行研究。
• Partly because of Chinese betting, and partly because the world now wagers online, the sums gambled on European games have soared.
  押注于欧洲球赛的金额大幅飙升，部分原因是中国人参赌，另外也是因为现在全世界都是通过网络下注。
• The state guarantees for retail banking provide cheap funding for the wagers made by investment banks.
  国家为零售银行提供的担保，为投资银行的赌博提供了廉价资金。
• But such wagers are quickly becoming the norm for the likes of Google and Facebook, two companies not content to rest on their already hugely profitable existing business models.
  但对于谷歌和Facebook这样的公司来说，这样的赌注正迅速成为常态；谷歌和Facebook都不满足于自身已经利润丰厚的现有业务模式。
• But let's be real: Coming into this year's Tennis Masters Cup, there wouldn't have been too many wagers on a Davydenko-Djokovic final.
  但还是让我们面对现实：今年的大师杯赛，在达维登科决赛中本来不会有多少赌注。
• Stock and commodity market transaction entered into in good faith are speculative contracts and not illegal as wagers.
  股票和商品市场交易进入以诚信是不违法的投机合同以及作为工资。