Few firms will be willing to gamble on new products.
很少有公司愿意在新产品上冒险。
So far it looks like Warner Brothers' gamble is paying off.
就目前情况来看,华纳兄弟公司的冒险一博似乎要赢了。
If you own shares in large American corporations, you're a winner in the weak-dollar gamble.
如果你持有美国大公司的股票,那么你会是这场疲软美元投机中的赢家。
The New York Times's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, acknowledged that the move is a gamble: "This is a bet , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going."
《纽约时报》的出版人阿瑟·苏兹伯格承认,此举是在赌博:“从某种程度上,这是在赌我们所认为的互联网的前进方向。”
German businesses also took a gamble during the downturn.
德国商界在经济衰退时下了一个赌注。
Napoleon took the gamble of pressing on to Moscow, 448 kilometers away.
拿破仑孤注一掷,决定向远在448公里之外的莫斯科进发。
Parents who allow their children to do so may be taking a significant gamble with their health.
那些允许孩子这么做的父母或许正在拿自己孩子的健康做赌注。
The next gamble was trickier: subjects were only told the total number of cards in the deck.
之后的实验则没那么简单:参与者只是被告知卡片的总数量。
Even when the amount they could lose outweighed the amount they could win, they chose to gamble.
甚至在失去的要比得到的多的时候,她们也倾向于放手一搏。
Sun could gamble that the bear market is over and that any rebound will take Sun's shares with it.
Sun可能押注熊市正在结束,市场反弹也会带动公司股价回升。
The first mass-market electric cars are arriving in showrooms. They represent a big gamble for carmakers.
当第一批畅销电动汽车出现在展厅时,汽车制造商们的赌局开始了。
By the time Reagan went to Berlin in 1987, he and Gorbachev had developed enough trust to gamble on change.
到里根1987年去柏林时,他和戈尔巴乔夫已经建立了足够的信任,能让他冒险一试。
I knew the crowd would be tired and bored by the time we got up, but I took a gamble and chose to speak last.
我知道轮到我们的时候,听众肯定已经感到疲劳厌烦了,但我赌了一把,选择最后发言。
When told they had won the first gamble (situation a), 69 per cent of the participants chose to play again.
当他们被告知赢了第一局的时候(情况A),69%的人选择继续参与。
And yet investors may be willing to gamble, despite the higher fees, because they desperately need high returns.
然而即使费用更高,投资者似乎仍愿意赌上一把,因为他们极其需要高的回报率。
If price-slashing helps Tesco pick up a lot of price-conscious customers, it will prove a worthwhile gamble.
如果降价能使特易购获得许多有省钱意识的客户,那么不妨一试。
At the start of the experiment each volunteer was given 50 dollars with which to gamble on the outcome of tossing a coin.
在实验的开始,研究人员给志愿者们每人50美元用于下注,投硬币决定输赢。
Scientists devised a "game" to test whether the chances of losing money affected the study participants' willingness to gamble.
科学家们设计了一场模拟游戏,用以测验输钱的可能性是否会影响到参加者们冒险的意愿。
In the 1990s, many pension funds made far too big a bet on equities, a gamble that went disastrously wrong in the 2000-02 bear market.
在上个世纪90年代,很多的养老金基金在股票上下的赌注太大,简直就是一场豪赌,在2000-02年的熊市中他们则损失惨重。
But critics call GNEP a costly gamble on unproven science that will harm the cause of nuclear energy and do little to combat proliferation.
但批评者认为,GNEP计划是一场未经科学证明的代价高昂的豪赌,它将损害核能事业,而对打击核扩散效果甚微。
Rather than allowing executives to gamble when making business decisions, a CRO analyzes the risks and determines if the moves are advisable.
通过设立首席风险官,在公司需要制定决策时,由CRO对风险进行分析,确定决策是否可取,而不是由其他高管用押宝的方式来决定。
Perhaps, but it is too early to say whether Mr Reid's gamble was bold or reckless.That is because it has offended moderates in both Chambers.
也许如此吧,但要说雷德这一宝押得大胆还是轻率言之尚早,因为他此举冒犯了两院的温和派议员。
How do you convince them that it is in their best interest to play the odds when they have been conditioned for so long to not gamble on health?
他们在健康问题上长时间没有冒过险,怎样使他们相信试一下这个机会对他们来说是有利的?
But many others, faced with high premiums and policies with limited coverage, gamble that they won't need insurance help to rebuild after a disaster.
但也有很多人,在面对高额的保险费和有限的赔偿时,便心存侥幸地认为他们在灾后重建时不需要保险公司的帮助。
The Topps were on the road because five months before, a nephew had told Joe there was work to be had in the Napa Valley and he and Nancy decided to gamble.
这一家正在旅途中。5个月前,乔的一个外甥告诉他说在纳帕山谷能找到工作,乔和南希决定冒冒风险。
The Topps were on the road because five months before, a nephew had told Joe there was work to be had in the Napa Valley and he and Nancy decided to gamble.
这一家正在旅途中。5个月前,乔的一个外甥告诉他说在纳帕山谷能找到工作,乔和南希决定冒冒风险。
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