gambit

• n. 话题；开始；以取得优势的开局棋法；开场白

1. an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

2. a maneuver in a game or conversation

3. a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position

an opening gambit (= the first thing you say)

开场白

牛津词典

His favourite opening gambit is: 'You are so beautiful, will you be my next wife?'...

他最喜欢的开场白是：“你可真是个美人儿啊，能做我的下一任妻子吗？”

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Bernard made no response to Tom's conversational gambits.

伯纳德没有接汤姆的话茬儿。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He sees the proposal as more of a diplomatic gambit than a serious defense proposal...

在他看来，与其说这是一项精心筹划的国防动议，倒不如说是外交上的一着妙棋。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Campaign strategists are calling the plan a clever political gambit.

竞选策划人士认为该计划是一着巧妙的政治棋。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

That was a clever gambit to move your bishop out so early in the chess game.

在这盘西洋棋中你如此早搬出你的象,那真是聪明的一步棋.

期刊摘选

But it's just the opening gambit in what could be a long chess match.

不过,这只是一场可能持续很长时间的棋局的第一招.

期刊摘选

Just a cheeky opening gambit in a tough negotiation?

这仅仅是艰难的谈判过程中一个厚颜无耻的开局策略 吗 ?

期刊摘选

His opening gambit at the debate was a direct attack on Government policy.

他在辩论中的策略是先直接抨击政府的政策.

辞典例句

This is always a hot point and front line gambit about Internet economy in recent years.

近年来,关于网络经济的研究一直是个热点和前沿的话题.

期刊摘选

China's current gambit is myopic.

中国目前的特别提款权策略是短视的.

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After that their next gambit is arms and tourism.

之后,他们的下一个开场白的是武器和旅游业.

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Cho's violent gambit failed and he was killed in the fighting.

乔的暴力之举没有取得成功,他本人在战斗中阵亡.

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His favorite opening gambit is: " What a beautiful day! "

他最喜欢开头的开场白是,多麽美丽的日子!

期刊摘选

As this gambit brought no success, she returned to the salt.

由于这一炮放不响, 她的话头又回到食盐上了.

辞典例句

He had fallen , Warren Trent realized , for an ancient , elementary gambit.

沃伦·特伦特觉得自己已为这个起码的老一套计谋所骗了.

辞典例句

The an Offer Gambit works well to stop the buyer grinding away on you.

出价策略成功地阻止了买家跟你无休止的还价.

期刊摘选

On the face of it , Mr Buffett's gambit looks both unwise and uncharacteristic.

从表面上看, 巴菲特的策略既不明智,也不符合他的特点.

期刊摘选

Campaign strategists are calling the plan a clever political gambit.

竞选策划人士认为该计划是一着巧妙的政治棋。

柯林斯例句

He sees the proposal as more of a diplomatic gambit than a serious defense proposal.

在他看来，与其说这是一项精心筹划的国防动议，倒不如说是外交上的一着妙棋。

柯林斯例句

His favourite opening gambit is: "You are so beautiful, will you be my next wife?"

他最喜欢的开场白是：“你可真是个美人儿啊，能做我的下一任妻子吗？”

柯林斯例句

来自拉丁语gamba, 腿，词源同gambol, gammon。即先走一步，开局。

1. Campaign strategists are calling the plan a clever political gambit.

竞选策划人士认为该计划是一着巧妙的政治棋。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He sees the proposal as more of a diplomatic gambit than a serious defense proposal.

在他看来，与其说这是一项精心筹划的国防动议，倒不如说是外交上的一着妙棋。

来自柯林斯例句

3. His favourite opening gambit is: "You are so beautiful, will you be my next wife?"

他最喜欢的开场白是：“你可真是个美人儿啊，能做我的下一任妻子吗？”

来自柯林斯例句

4. The Florida - friend gambit had not fooled Sweeting for an instant.

所谓佛罗里达的朋友那一套,一点也诓不了斯威廷.

来自辞典例句

5. As this gambit brought no success, she returned to the salt.

由于这一炮放不响, 她的话头又回到食盐上了.

来自辞典例句

gambit

gambit: [17] Like gambol [16], gambit originated in an Italian noun meaning literally ‘tripping up’. The Italian for ‘leg’ is gamba (a relative of English gammon ‘bacon’). From it were derived gambetto and gambata, both of which signified ‘trip-up’. The former was borrowed into Spanish as gambito, where its underlying notion of ‘underhanded procedure’ was first applied specifically to a chess manoeuvre in the mid- 16th century.

It passed into English mainly via French gambit. More frivolous, light-hearted aspects of ‘tripping’ are preserved in gambata, which English originally took over via French as gambade and gradually transformed into gambol.
=> gambol, gammon

gambit (n.)

"chess opening in which a pawn or piece is risked for advantage later," 1650s, gambett, from Italian gambetto, literally "a tripping up" (as a trick in wrestling), from gamba "leg," from Late Latin gamba (see gambol (n.)). Applied to chess openings in Spanish in 1561 by Ruy Lopez, who traced it to the Italian word, but the form in Spanish generally was gambito, which led to French gambit, which has influenced the English spelling of the word. Broader sense of "opening move meant to gain advantage" in English is recorded from 1855.