1. 1策略、招數(西洋棋:棄子搶先手)

    A gambit is a first move you make on purpose, even though it costs you something small, because you hope it will help you win later. It started as a word from chess: a player gives up a small piece early in the game to get a better position. Now people use it for any clever first step in a plan or a conversation — for example, a business "opening gambit" in a negotiation, or a joke someone tells to start a conversation. It usually means the move is a little risky or a little sneaky, not just any first step.

core核心畫面

組成Comes from an old Italian word for tripping someone's leg in wrestling. Chess players borrowed the word for a trick move, and then everyday English borrowed it from chess.

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

gambitnoun/ˈɡæmbɪt/

  • 1

    board-gameschessgamesAn opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.

    • Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.
  • 2

    Any ploy or stratagem.

    • Their promise to lower taxes is clearly an election-year gambit.
    • The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.
  • 3

    A remark intended to open a conversation.

gambitverb/ˈɡæmbɪt/

  • 1

    board-gameschessgamesTo sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.

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