Слово "gamble". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soulerosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.

I suspected him of racketing around, of gambling, of drinking hard, and of being first and last a womanizer.

Look, lady, aren't any medical schools in Luna!) (Then, I mean.) She even wanted to make gambling illegal.

I had the sense to know it was a gamble I was taking, but I didn't care.

His whole life was competitive and he lived by one kind of gambling or another.

It gave Julia a good deal of satisfaction to discover that Michael’s father was a colonel, it impressed her to hear him speak of an ancestor who had gambled away his fortune at White’s during the Regency, and she liked the signet ring Michael wore with the boar’s head on it and the motto: Nemo me impune lacessit.

The point is, you won't know. If you smoke, you'll be gambling with loaded dice. Are they watching? Are they picking up my wife or sending a man after my son right now? Beautiful, isn't it? And if you do sneak a smoke, it'll taste awful. It will taste like your son's blood." But they couldn't be watching now, in the dead of night, in his own study. The house was grave-quiet. He looked at the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away. Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more. A horrible picture came: his life stretching before him and not a cigarette to be found. How in the name of God was he ever going to be able to make another tough presentation to a wary client, without that cigarette burning nonchalantly between his fingers as he approached the charts and layouts? How would he be able to endure Cindy's endless garden shows without a cigarette? How could he even get up in the morning and face the day without a cigarette to smoke as he drank his coffee and read the paper?

He could probably cook up a reasonable statement - he gambles a bit on the Stock Exchange and he's in with one or two shady deals.

Most of them spent their time gambling after a day or two of sightseeing including that silly walk up on surface every tourist makes.

''If you were my boy I'd take you out and gamble,'' he said. ''But you are your father's and your mother's and you are in a lucky boat.''

She wasn't like these people who had gambled everything on a Cause that was gone and were content to be proud of having lost that Cause, because it was worth any sacrifice.