gamble是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 赌博; 投机，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when she had gone to bed, he and Mrs Bolton would gamble on till two and three in the morning, safely, and with strange lust.
-- The upshot was, Sir Clifford raised Mrs Bolton's wages a hundred a year, and she could gamble on that.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He's not queer like the Calverts who'd gamble everything they have on a horse, or the Tarletons who turnout a drunkard or two in every litter, or the Fontaines who are hot-headed little brutes and after murdering a man for afancied slight.
-- A man could gamble himself to povertyand still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast.
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