wagered

英 [ˈweɪdʒəd]

美 [ˈweɪdʒərd]

v.  打赌; 押(赌注); 打包票
wager的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 押(赌注);打赌
  If youwager onthe result of a horse race, football match, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
  1. Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them...
     人们将赌注下在扬基队上并不说明就喜欢他们。
  2. Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
     高尔夫球手投下重注赌尼克·法尔多夺冠。
  3. Wageris also a noun.
     
  4. There have been various wagers on certain candidates since the Bishop announced his retirement.
     自从大主教宣布退职后，人们纷纷打赌猜测几位继任人选。
• VERB (表示很确定)打赌，保证
  If you say that you willwager thatsomething is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case.
  1. She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in...
     她愿意打赌他居住的公寓并不属于他。
  2. I'll wager she'll still make the same impact when she's 70.
     我敢打赌，她就算到了70岁，影响力也会不减当年。

双语例句

• Security is essential for governance, so alliance leaders have understandably wagered heavily on building up the Afghan military and police.
  安全对于治理来说至关重要，因此联军领袖下大力气建设阿富汗军队和警方，也是可以理解的。
• I had wagered a great deal of money that I would beat him.
  我下了大赌注打赌，这次比赛我会赢他的。
• He's wagered all his money on the third race.
  他把全部赌注押在第三次比赛上。
• Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.
  高尔夫球手投下重注赌尼克·法尔多夺冠。
• In 1916, over$ 160m in today's money was wagered on the contest between Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes.
  以如今的币值衡量，在1916年约有1.6亿美元对伍德罗•威尔逊（WoodrowWilson）和查尔斯•伊万斯•休斯（CharlesEvansHughes）之间的竞选下注。
• As the iPhone and Android took off and Windows foundered, Microsoft wagered last year that a partnership with the Finnish giant could make it a credible No. 3 player in the fast-growing smartphone market.
  由于iPhone和安卓（Android）手机开始腾飞、Windows手机一败涂地，微软去年把宝押在了诺基亚身上，指望跟这家芬兰巨头的合作能使它在成长迅速的智能手机市场稳居第三。
• Before the earthquake, some hedge funds had wagered on a Japanese financial collapse, saying that the country would have to default on its massive debt ( predicted to hit 228% of GDP this year) or destroy the value of the yen.
  有些对冲基金在此次地震前就已押注日本将现金融危机，他们预计日本庞大的债务（预计相当于今年该国GDP的2.28倍）可能出现违约，或让日元贬值。
• Soros rose to fame and fortune two decades ago on a now-historic trade, in which he took on the Bank of England and shrewdly wagered on a devaluation of the British pound.
  20年前，索罗斯向英格兰银行发起了挑战，精明地押注英镑贬值，攫取了巨额财富，也因此声名大振。这在现今来看也堪称历史上很著名的一次交易行为。
• Betting where winners share the total amount wagered.
  赌博其中赢家分全部数量的赌金。
• And the stakes are not trivial: hundreds of pounds a second are wagered during the match.
  此外，赌金数额相当巨大，在比赛期间，每秒钟都有上千英镑投注。