If you wager on the 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.
例句
Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them...人們將賭注下在揚基隊上并不說明就喜歡他們。Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship.高爾夫球手投下重注賭尼克·法爾多奪冠。
VERB
(表示很確定)打賭，保證
If you say that you will wager that something is the case, you mean you are confident that it is the case.
例句
She was willing to wager that he didn't own the apartment he lived in...她愿意打賭他居住的公寓并不屬于他。I'll wager she'll still make the same impact when she's 70.我敢打賭，她就算到了70歲，影響力也會不減當年。