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。”

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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。

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We often talk about "gambling" money on an idea or "taking a gamble" to mean taking a risk. Another very common one is "bet," both as a verb and a noun.

我们常说在某个想法上下注或“来赌博”来表示冒险，另一个常用的词是“bet ”，即可用作动词也可做名词。

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If, however, your goal with purchasing gold is to take a gamble or make a bet on the direction of the current price, go for it.

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Call it a gamble or call it an investment, Ballmer is making a big and risky bet on the most radical redesign of Windows since he and Bill Gates introduced Windows 95 more than 15 years ago.

FORBES: Windows 8: Microsoft's Big Gamble