假如不是这个雇员错把下赌注的邮件发给公司的管理员，他挪用公款的事情将不会发现。
The employee's peculation might never have been discovered had he not misdirected ane-mail intended for his bookie to the company bookkeeper.
一些观众对将取得第一、第二或第三名的每匹马下赌注。
Some members in the audience bet on each horse to win, place, or show.
科学家们设置了一个鸟类的“卡西诺赌场”，在那里放上两个标志以供鸽子下赌注。
Scientists set up an avian casino in which pigeons could place their bets on one of two symbols.
所以你不用放进去100美元而只挣1美元，你借100万美元，对不同的篮球队下许多赌注，可以挣20,000美元。
So instead of placing a $100 bet and making a dollar, you borrow a million dollars, make lots of bets on lots of teams, and make $20,000.
然而，最重要的是，油气专业公司转向天然气是对需求和气候变化政策下赌注 。
Most of all, however, the majors’ dash for gas is a bet on demand and climate-change policy.
然而，最重要的是，油气专业公司转向天然气是对需求和气候变化政策下赌注。
Most of all, however, the majors' dash for gas is a bet on demand and climate-change policy.
但那样可能会是一个错误：所下的赌注实在太高，涉及所有人类特有的生存方式。
But that would be a mistake: the stakes are simply too high, going all the way up the very survival of our species.
能对下跌的价格下赌注(“卖空”)使它们区别于传统的“只做多头”基金，后者只能在价格上升的时候获利。
This ability to bet on falling prices (" going short ") distinguishes them from traditional "long-only" funds, which profit only if prices rise.
好吧，保罗，如果你对这个预测如此自信，你愿意在对这个预测下赌注，以利用我的“邪恶”吗？
Well, Paul, if you are so confident in this forecast, would you like to place a wager on it and take advantage of my wickedness?
他们的荣誉，谢谢上帝，他们的尊严，他们的光明，他们的天才都不是那些赌鬼似的英雄和征服者在战争赌局中所能下的赌注。
Their honor, thank God! their dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles.
未来可能真的取决于成本低廉的航空公司，但他们为连续不断的增长下赌注未免过于愚蠢。
The future may indeed lie with the low-cost airlines, but they would be foolish to bet on uninterrupted growth.
奥巴马的命运更多取决于他在十一月中期选举前押下的两大赌注，当时共和党尚未取得众议院控制权。
Mr Obama's fate depends more on two big bets he placed well before the Republican capture of the House in November's mid-terms.
第三，如果知道一旦灾难发生你就不可能还款的情况下，谁还会在第一时间借给你钱，你赌的其中一个队赢，可你输掉了全部赌注。
Third, why would anyone loan you this money in the first place, knowing that you have no chance of paying it back if disaster strikes, one of your teams wins, and you lose your entire stake?
从某种意义上讲，我在这里下的赌注，实际上是我的生命，这生命有温暖的石头的味道，充满了大海的叹息和逐渐响起来的蟋蟀的歌唱。
In a sense, it is indeed my life that I am staking here, a life that tastes of warm stone, that is full of the sighs of the sea and the rising song of the crickets.
像我上文提到的那样，一个赌徒不会在华盛顿峰会后将赌注下具有突破性进展的和平上，哈马斯难题是一个巨大的障碍。
As I said, a betting man would not favour the chances of a rapid breakthrough after the Washington summit. The Hamas conundrum is a huge obstacle.
基金和其它机构认定贝尔斯登的现金即将枯竭，他们将赌注皆下于此。
Funds and other financial players were betting that Bear Stearns could run out of cash.
合同中的每一个字，每一个词，每一句话，都意味着潜在的输或赢，换句话说，押在这上面下的赌注也很大，所以，在起草合同时要把握两条原则：小心谨慎和深思熟虑。
With every word, phrase and sentence carrying the potential for winning or losing, the stakes are high. Simple logic, therefore, directs us to cautious and thoughtful drafting.
导致这场危机的部分原因是那些毫不负责的进行金融交易并将其当成衍生工具的美国国际集团和另一些下巨额和高风险赌注的公司。
Part of what led to this crisis was firms like AIG and others making huge and risky bets - using things like derivatives - without accountability.
那么，是什么让苹果公司成为如此令人受欢迎的手机制造商，以至于消费者们愿意在未见产品的情况下就愿下赌注呢？
So what makes Apple such a desirable phone manufacturer that consumers are willing to bet on it, sight unseen?
在迪斯尼的领导下，他们减少了电影制作量，赌注的风险就更大了。
Led by Disney, they are cutting back on the number of movies they produce, making the gambles they do take all the more risky.
如果你是一位男主管，并且娶了一位女主管，丢了你的饭碗，那么你不能下更多的赌注，不能新机遇一出现随时就搬。
If you're a male executive and you're married to a female executive, and you lose your job, you can't just up stakes and move for a new opportunity;
我们是在拿自己的幸福和健康下赌注，”他说，“我们忙于追逐金钱，却遗忘了生活的本质所在”。
We had sacrificed our happiness and our health," he says. "In chasing money, we had forgotten the basic essence of life."
“我愿意为生物燃料下100美元的赌注”，《自然资本论》一书的合著者Hunter Lovins说，她补充说她对生物燃料的偏爱甚至超过了混合动力和氢燃料电池。
"If I had to bet 100 bucks, I'd bet on biofuels," says Hunter Lovins, co-author of "Natural Capitalism", adding that she would favour them even over plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
“我愿意为生物燃料下100美元的赌注”，《自然资本论》一书的合著者Hunter Lovins说，她补充说她对生物燃料的偏爱甚至超过了混合动力和氢燃料电池。
“If I had to bet 100 bucks, I’d bet on biofuels,” says Hunter Lovins, co-author of “Natural Capitalism”, adding that she would favour them even over plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
“我愿意为生物燃料下100美元的赌注”，《自然资本论》一书的合著者Hunter Lovins说，她补充说她对生物燃料的偏爱甚至超过了混合动力和氢燃料电池。
“If I had to bet 100 bucks, I’d bet on biofuels,” says Hunter Lovins, co-author of “Natural Capitalism”, adding that she would favour them even over plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells.
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