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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He's wagered all his money on the third race.
  他把全部赌注押在第三次比赛上。
• 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。
• Betting where winners share the total amount wagered.
  赌博其中赢家分全部数量的赌金。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。