betting是什么意思？

betting

英[ˈbetɪŋ]

• n. 打赌；
• v. 敢说，八成儿( bet的现在分词 )，打赌(on,against,with)，敢断定，敢说；

例句

• Exxon Mobil Corp. is betting big on China's seemingly endless hunger for fuel. 埃克森美孚(ExxonMobil)正对中国似乎永无休止的对燃料的渴求押下重注.
• Captain Mark McCluskey sat in his office fingering three envelopes bulging with betting slips. 警官马可-麦克罗斯基坐在自己的办公室里,舞弄着三个装满赌签的纸袋.
• Some people are fond of betting. 有些人喜欢打赌.
• If you are only betting two dollars, I'll book you myself. 如果你只下两元赌注, 我可以和你赌.
• Racing has always had a symbiotic relationship with betting. 赛马总是与赌博相挂钩。
• I thought nothing of betting £1,000 on a horse. 我认为把 1,000 英镑押在一匹马身上没什么了不起。
• ...betting shops. 彩票销售点
• ...the manageress of a betting shop. 彩票经营点的女经理
• Instead of using the money to pay his rent, he went to a betting shop and lost the lot in half an hour. 他没有拿钱去交房租，而是去了投注站，半小时内就把这笔钱全输光了。
• The betting is that the experience will make Japan more competitive still. 这场经历很有可能使日本更具竞争力。

词组

• the betting is
  (informal)it is likely (非正式)很可能是
• in (或 out of) the betting
  likely (or unlikely) to be among the winners of a horse race and given appropriate odds 赛马可能（或不可能）获胜并赢得赌注
• what's the betting?
  (Brit. informal)used to express a belief that something is likely (英，非正式)相信有可能

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• PHRASE
  很有可能；十有八九
  If you say the betting is that something will happen or is true, you are suggesting that it is very likely to happen or to be true.
  例句
  The betting is that the experience will make Japan more competitive still. 这场经历很有可能使日本更具竞争力。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance;
  "led a dissipated life""a betting man""a card-playing son of a bitch""a gambling fool""sporting gents and their ladies"