A calculated gamble, or another century of failure?

精心准备的赌局，还是又一个百年失败？

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“To bring one country into the crosshairs in so many districts, at such a late stage of the campaign, represents something new and a calculated gamble,” he said. “I find it deplorable.

“在一次选举的后期，广大地区将一个国家当做众矢之的，这说明出现了一些全新的、经过深思熟虑的赌博，”他说，“我觉得这很可悲也很卑劣。”

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Beatrice Gakuba is one private entrepreneur who took a calculated risk with her business, Rwanda Flora. But it was a gamble that paid off.

比亚特蕾斯。加库芭是一名私营企业家，她知道办企业的风险，但却执意冒险经营了自己的企业“卢旺达花卉公司”(Rwanda Flora)，而这次赌博却带来了回报。

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Our elected leaders in Washington made a calculated gamble about the economy.

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Indeed, prosecutors made a calculated gamble by dropping the lesser charge of assisted suicide, which would have allowed testimony about the victim's pain and suffering.

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England took a calculated gamble by recalling Pietersen, who has been troubled by an Achilles tendon problem, and he admitted afterwards that he was only "about 70% fit".

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