🇬🇧🇨🇳 gamble - 赌博 : English Lesson

Meaning of "gamble" ("赌博"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

To gamble means to risk money (or something valuable) in a game, race, or bet where you don’t know what will happen. You might win more money, or you might lose what you had. People gamble on things like card games or horse races, but there is never a promise that you will win.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried to gamble one slice of pizza that I could outrun the neighbor’s turtle; I lost slowly and embarrassingly.

My brother tried to gamble his chores away, but Mom said the house is not a casino and the trash still needs to go out.

We gamble stickers on who can make the weirdest face, and by the end it looks like a classroom full of confused llamas.

I tried to gamble my vegetables that my dad couldn’t moonwalk; now I still have to eat peas and I also can’t unsee Dad dancing.

Some people gamble on horse races, card games, or sports, but the odds of always winning are so tiny that even a bored snail wouldn’t bet its slime trail on it.

At the small table, Tom watched the wheel and chose to gamble on red, to gamble for one big win. He had little cash and the dealer smiled; he would gamble again and gamble against his fear despite the warning. He watched the ball bounce, chose to gamble twice more with his last bill. The ball stopped — he laughed.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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