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

• 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。
• Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass.
  雅各布担保了他的驴子，他并没有打赌他的屁股。
• He wagered ( that) his team would win.
  他打赌他的队能赢。
• So nobody would have wagered that Pfingst would also be the first D.A.in the U.S.to launch his very own Innocence Project.
  谁也不能保证芬斯特会成为美国第一个实施自己“清白计划”的地方检察官。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• At the very least, betable has wagered its regulatory head start will be enough chips to stay at the table.
  格里芬相信，凭借Betable公司在申请监管批准方面的领先地位，Betable现在至少已经有了足够的筹码在赌桌上玩下去。
• 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。
• 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。