我们处于左右为难的窘境，不知是要违法还是要拿生命冒险。

We were in the invidious position of having to choose whether to break the law or risk lives.

《牛津词典》

粗心大意的驾驶者拿他人和自己的生命冒险。

Careless drivers hazard other people's lives as well as their own.

《牛津词典》

他们告诫我不要拿自己的健康来冒险。

They admonished me for taking risks with my health.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

But remember, now he knows what he's doing and so he really wasn't gambling his wife-- he was really a very pure and honorable man.

不过要记住,现在他知道自己在做什么,所以他并不是真的要拿妻子来冒险,他真的是个很纯洁并且值得尊敬的人

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