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

• Thumbing his nose at such notions as resource scarcity, Mr Simon wagered that the price of any five commodities chosen by Mr Ehrlich would go down over the following decade.
  西蒙对其强调资源稀缺性的观点嗤之以鼻，他打赌说，在随后到来的十年中，埃氏挑选的那五种商品价格必会下跌。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Betting where winners share the total amount wagered.
  赌博其中赢家分全部数量的赌金。
• 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。
• He wagered early on Yahoo Japan and Alibaba. The latter investment alone may be one of the greatest investments ever, parlaying a bet of about$ 200 million into a stake worth in the neighborhood of$ 70 billion.
  早在很久以前，他就投资了雅虎日本和阿里巴巴公司。后者也许堪称史上最佳投资之一，2亿美元的投入如今已经升值到了大约700亿美元。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。