He took chances.

他利用了机会。

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They always took chances and got burned very badly in past years.

他们总是冒险，在过去的几年里损失惨重。

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They took risks and they took chances, and they tried a lot of different things until they got to where they wanted to be.

他们敢于冒险，把握机会，他们会去尝试很多不同的事物，直到找到他们想要的。

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It was their home. Negro slaves took great chances to escape to freedom.

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Rostropovich also took chances politically, in the controlling atmosphere of the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev, which ended up getting him into trouble.

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Many will remember the awful feeling in the last recession, in the early 1990s - or the 1987 stock market crash, or the British property bubble - where you know nothing fundamental has changed - but people who spent freely before, took chances before, stop doing all those things, and everything slows down, share prices fall - confidence ebbs away.

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Their banks took fewer chances and did not pay bonuses on anything like the same scale.

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