To win a bet, he had once spent a whole night in the cemetery.

为了赢得一笔赌注，他有一次在墓地里待了整整一夜。

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To win a bet, Pecos Bill once rode an Oklaoma cyclone without a saddle.

有一次为了打赌，佩克斯·比尔不用鞍子就骑上了一般俄克拉何马的旋风。

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He chiseled a head into the palace wall. A story says that to win a bet, Michelangelo carved the head with his hands behind his back, facing away from the wall.

米开朗基罗也协助装饰其外观，他在宫墙上雕刻头像，有一个传说提到，为了跟人打赌，米开朗基罗背对着墙，两手背在后面雕刻头像。

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Like in basketball, gamblers ignore statistics and mistakenly believe they are more likely to win a future bet because they have won previous ones.

FORBES: The Hot Hand Fallacy

My prediction that Sri Lanka are a good bet to win the tournament took a knock when they lost their opening game, and then lost the services of Muttiah Muralitharan.

BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch was considered a safe bet to win re-election to a third two-year term after facing off against Republican Joe Kenney, a state senator.

CNN: Dems win two open governor races, make history in N.C.